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

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

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

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

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

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

Astronomers have spotted something unusual, a planet that doesn’t orbit any star. It’s just drifting alone through space.

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a “rogue planet”, a world about the size of Saturn, that is wandering through ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet ...

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