Explore the vastness of the Solar System in this video, which accurately showcases the relative sizes of the planets and their actual distances from the Sun.

The dichotomy arises during the first 50 million years of planetary history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Supercomputer ...

Specifically the CfA team looked at 95 planet candidates orbiting 64 red dwarf stars using publically available data obtained by NASA’s star-gazing telescope Kepler. Most of these candidates aren’t ...

A planet-forming disk made from rock and gas surrounds a young star. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran Scientists have discovered over 4,000 ...

The fate of Neptune-like worlds that migrate close to their star is to be whittled away by stellar radiation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

An illustration showing the relative sizes of brown dwarfs as compared to starts and gas giant planets, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Natalie Hinkel receives funding from the NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science research coordination network based out of Arizona State University. This funding is used to research exoplanet ...