The "Vulcan planet" that may not exist In a remarkable case of science ... Most known planets orbit stars, but there may be ...

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...