Now 87 years of age, Venetia Phair (née Burney) is the only person in the world who can claim to have named a planet. In 1930, at just 11 years of age, Mrs Phair suggested the title Pluto for the ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Among the planets in our solar system, Earth stands out not just for its life-supporting capabilities but also for its unique name. Unlike its celestial neighbors—Mercury, Venus, Mars ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

Through a process called accretion, particles in this disk began sticking together, forming planetesimals — the building blocks of planets. Over millions of years, these objects grew larger ...