Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...
Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...
Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...
Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...
Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...
Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...
So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...
A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...
One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...
Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...
Until now, researchers have struggled to understand where these planets actually come from. Now, however, researchers have ...