The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

Planet Nine, the undiscovered planet at the edge of the solar system that was predicted by the work of Caltech’s Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016, appears to be responsible for the ...

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An international team of astronomers have taken what they claim is the first-ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star. While plenty of images exist of a single planet orbiting a star ...

The newly discovered TOI 451 planetary system features three planets orbiting the same sun. CREDIT Illustration courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center A newly discovered planetary system will ...

A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to our Sun. A new study ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted a powerful coronal flare (cme) from a star other than the Sun.

(CNN) — The discovery of a distant Jupiter-like planet orbiting a dead star reveals what may happen in our solar system when the sun dies in about 5 billion years, according to new research. This ...

Astronomers have recently discovered compelling evidence suggesting that ageing stars, similar to our Sun, consume nearby ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...