The average price of a new vehicle in the United States has been climbing steadily over the past five years, reaching a point where even a six-figure income doesn’t provide enough cushion. For many, ...

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Scientists discover a 21-million-year-old dwarf sea cow that grazed in the Arabian Gulf, revealing how it transformed marine ecosystems.

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

Astronomers have reported one of the longest stellar dimming events ever recorded, with a Sun-like star fading by 97 percent for nearly 200 days. Astronomers believe one of the longest stellar dimming ...

The discovery overturns traditional models that predicted gas giants in outer orbits and suggests planets can form in gas-poor environments.