Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

Planets travel alone in space, without a parent star. These wandering worlds, far from being rare, might even be extremely ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a discovery that turns a once-theoretical idea into a measured reality. The planet ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously ...

Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...