Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This image of Pluto was made after the New Horizons spacecraft flew past the dwarf planet on July ...

Since the discovery of exoplanets, a planet that orbits stars outside the solar system, astronomers and scientists have been astounded by the strange characteristics of these extrasolar planets. To ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...