A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, ...

A new "Tatooine-like" planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.Related video above: The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems ...

“The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute for Advanced Study’s Sihao Cheng mentioned in a recent press release. As ...

This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant ...