Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

Ground and space-based telescopes have confirmed a microlensing event caused by a rogue planet wandering silently through the ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

Not all planets are lucky enough to live in a neighborhood like our Solar System – some are doomed to roam the cosmos alone.

It may be hard to imagine that the dark night sky is a profound astronomical observation. Yet the darkness of the night sky, also known as Olbers Paradox, is one of astronomy’s great puzzles. Four ...

Stargazers will be able to view six of the Solar System’s planets form a straight line as they take their place in a parade of planets. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will all ...

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A rogue planet is a world that has been ejected from the planetary system in which it originally formed. Because rogue planets do not orbit a parent star, they are cast adrift into interstellar space.