In our solar system, all the major planets are aligned in the same plane, what we call the ecliptic, and that suggests they all formed in that first protoplanetary disk. In 14 Herculis, it seems that ...

Not only is 14 Herculis c not hot at all, it's uncommonly cold. The exoplanet is so cold, in fact, that the team of researchers claims it is the coldest exoplanet imaged to date, NASA said in a ...

The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules.

The sun rotates the fastest at the equator, whereas the rotation rate slows down at higher latitudes and is the slowest at the polar regions. But a nearby sun-like star—V889 Herculis, some 115 ...