The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary ...

Easy: Venus is the weirdest planet in the solar system. The most distant major planet from the sun and the last stop before ...

Scientists have identified 45 Earth-like planets beyond our solar system that may support life. Using advanced space data, ...

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression shows the "inside out" planetary system around the star LHS 1903. - ESA An exoplanetary system about 116 ...

Somewhere beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is bent. Not by much, and not in a way any known planet can account for. A study ...

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

Maintaining liquid surface water is one of the preconditions that a planet has to meet in order to support life as we know it ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host life, according to new ...

Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host life, according to new ...