We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise direction. However, the universe never ceases to amaze us with its unexpected ...

Radio signals emanating from Beta Pictoris b suggest that this young and massive exoplanet has a strong magnetic field and ...

"Be careful with communication because Mercury is in retrograde." This is a phrase often seen in horoscopes. However, it does ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...

Imagine the Sun shedding its outer layers not as a gentle breeze but as bursts of material flung in different directions. Each burst nudges the Sun slightly, and the planets respond by shifting their ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of a planetary system with four planets, around a small red star, called LHS1903 with a large reddish-brown ...

Learn how Pluto nearly kept its planet status in a proposed 12-planet Solar System as its demotion marks its 20th anniversary. Eight days before Pluto lost its planetary status, it appeared ready to ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...