Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) estimate that six percent of red dwarf stars in the galaxy have ...

The Solar System may appear calm and well organized, but it is actually the result of billions of years of delicate cosmic balancing. Changing the order of the planets might sound like a fun thought ...

For centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other worlds existed beyond those in our own cosmic backyard, and we imagined that if other planetary ...

Astronomers have recently tracked a massive rogue planet, referred to as a “super-Jupiter,” that is drifting toward our solar neighborhood. This discovery has captured the attention of the scientific ...