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

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Today (Feb. 17), an annular solar eclipse will commence its journey across a remote region of Antarctica where it will be visible to more penguins than people. The partial solar eclipse portion of the ...

A “ring of fire” solar eclipse will be visible on Tuesday, with the best views in Antarctica and partial eclipse views in Africa and South America.

SPRING Festival or the Chinese Lunar New Year is the biggest festival in China. It takes place during the time that the northern hemisphere starts its gradual warming, having already passed the ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be possible. Around the small star LHS 1903, a dense rocky world orbits on ...

Evidence from medieval chronicles suggests that the periodic nature of Halley’s Comet was recognized centuries earlier than previously believed.

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This work is available under a CC BY 4.0 license. A detailed description of the dataset is available in the article published by the original creators of the dataset: E. L. Ratnam, S. R. Weller, C. M.

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began carrying out large-scale, long-term surveys of other stars, that we started to ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...