The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

The idea of a planet orbiting two suns has long captured both scientific curiosity and public imagination. Popularised by science fiction, such worlds, known as circumbinary planets, do exist, and ...

Astronomy fans know 2025 kicked off with a meteor shower, but another big spectacle is coming up that should be on your radar, too. Here’s what to look forward to and how to watch. Planetary alignment ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...