Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

Using observations from both ground-based telescopes and space instruments, they were able to measure the planet's size and ...

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