"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

Picture this: a vast, black expanse speckled with stars, where gentle giants—colossal, elegant space whales—glide gracefully ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

Dune. Star Wars. Alien. Science fiction movies love alien worlds, and so do we. But how do scientists find planets outside ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

Many of science fiction's predictions have come to pass. This prediction about generating solar energy in space might be ...