Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

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

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

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

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

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

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no ...

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

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