Scientists from Queen's University Belfast have led an international team in the discovery of a rare new planet, which is ...

The orbits of the planets around the sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties are well understood but the planetary orbits have evolved and changed since ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

A giant planet circling a dead star should not be there. That was the puzzle hanging over WD 1856 b ever since astronomers ...

For more than a century, people have wondered whether our solar system's planetary count really stops at eight. The idea ...

At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star’s chromosphere brightens.

A rare super-Jupiter with a remarkably long 180-day orbit has emerged from years of patient observations, marking one of the ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...