The orbits of the planets around the sun have been the source ... researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, at ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

The TRAPPIST-1 system I talked about yesterday ... but it also means they are almost certainly tidally locked. Tidal locking occurs when a planet or moon is so close to its companion that tidal ...

The Earth has a complicated history of interactions with materials from our solar system ... ring that circled the planet. This occurred due to the Earth’s Roche limit – a point where the ...

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase ... Pluto and Charon are tidally locked to each other, meaning they always ...

Using a small telescope one can also discern the planet’s oblateness, or flattening at the poles. Continued study of Saturn’s ring system can yield ... active body in the solar system, due to heat ...

Scientists have captured faint magnetic signatures resulting from the tidal movement of seawater across the planet — and they might have to wait until 2030 to get another shot at it. When you ...

It may seem like Earth isn't as well-decorated as its ring-bearing neighbors in the solar system, but new research suggests ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has been warned that his promise to create "swimmable rivers" in the capital by 2034 must not encourage people to swim in the dangerous tides of the Thames. The mayor ...