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

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

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

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

The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...

Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through ...

Degraded natural wealth is not just an environmental problem, it is also an economic liability. But achieving economic growth without harming the environment is not only possible but has already been ...

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