"This is really like looking at ourselves in a funhouse mirror." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skewed planetary pathways around ...

The EXOEarths team (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto – CAUP), in collaboration with Geneva University, did a joint analysis of data from the HARPS spectrograph and the Kepler satellite.

Portal Space Systems says it has successfully tested its solar thermal propulsion system at operational temperatures inside a ...

Portal Space Systems tests 3D printed heat exchanger thruster - validating the core technology powering Supernova.

In the outer Solar System, far from the light and warmth of the Sun, things can get a little… hinky. There, clusters of rocks have been orbiting in weird loops that some astronomers have attributed to ...

Scientists have been trying to find a hypothetical Planet 9 that may exist outside our known solar system based on the unusual orbits of certain dwarf planets. But those orbits might not require a ...

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our ...

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare solar system with six planets moving in sync with one another. Estimated to be billions of years old, the formation 100 light-years away may help unravel some ...