Now, you too can become a planetary nursery finding `detective`

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 13:31

NASA has begun inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency`s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, DiskDetective.org.

Extrasolar planet formation sheds new light on other planetary systems

Last Updated: Friday, June 14, 2013, 12:33

Researchers has found evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from its star-about twice the distance Pluto is from our Sun.

Wide binary stars wreak havoc in planetary systems

Last Updated: Monday, January 7, 2013, 15:26

: Planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, more so than if they had stellar companions with tighter orbits around them, astrophysicists have found.

Our solar system resembles other planetary systems in Milky Way

Last Updated: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 19:19

Results of a new research has altered the chronology of our solar system’s historical development.

Hot Jupiter exoplanet discovery sheds light on planetary systems

Last Updated: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 18:33

New findings suggest that the discovery of a hot Jupiter exoplanet that transfers orbital momentum to its host star may hold the key to a clearer understanding of the evolution of common planetary systems.