The stars may not align, but the planets will. Stargazers are in for a treat later this month when six planets form a line during a rare event scientists are dubbing a “planetary parade.” The ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...

A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.

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

A planet parade is basically the nickname given when the planets in our solar system appear to line up in a roughly straight line from the Earth’s perspective. Just after sunset on 28 February, six of ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

The Panel on Small Solar System Bodies is one of six panels providing topical input to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Steering Group. This panel will discuss the role played by ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...