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

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

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

Finding‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ planets that are outside our solar system, called exoplanets, has changed the way we see the cosmos and our place in it. These faraway planets are extremely hard to find because they ...

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

The observations expand the range of environments where habitable worlds might emerge. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the ...