A distant planet that orbits its host star five minutes early or five minutes late alternately has l...

The researchers think that the "diamond planet" is all that remains of the original star, most of wh...

A Jupiter-sized distant planet darker than the blackest coal has caught the attention of astronomers...

Astronomers claim to have discovered a new planetary nebula -- an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrog...

Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have depicted a model of an aurora on...

The team of scientists has discovered planets outside our solar system -- exoplanets -- when they 't...

Neptune -- the blue coloured eighth planet of the solar system, will this year complete its first re...

The data revealed differences between the sun and planets in oxygen and nitrogen, which are two of t...

Scientists found that Mars apparently grew very rapidly, accumulating enough dust from the protoplan...