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

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...

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

Pioneered by Edward Steichen, Lewis W. Hine and Tana Hoban, photographically illustrated “concept” books have never had a ...

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

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

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

New XRISM X-ray observations reveal details of gas near a supermassive black hole in galaxy MCG–6-30-15, helping scientists better measure black hole spin and behavior ...

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez thinks too many members of her party miss what’s really driving the alienation and anger in our ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...