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

Far beyond Neptune, something heavy appears to be tugging on the outer solar system, bending the paths of distant icy worlds ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

Scientists measure a Saturn-sized rogue planet drifting through the Milky Way using rare Earth and space observations, revealing how planets can be ejected from their original systems.

People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It ...

A young world drifting alone through space is putting on one of the most violent growth spurts astronomers have ever seen, ...

Elon Musk, JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni have all described JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels as fundamental to their respective ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

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

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

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...