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

However, a free-floating (or “rogue”) planet offers none of that. It drifts through a galaxy without an obvious host star, ...

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

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

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

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

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

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

This image from a simulation of atmospheric flow shows temperature patterns on one of the newly discovered planets (61Virb), which is hot enough that it glows with its own thermal emission. A movie of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do ...