Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

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

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

Scientists have finally worked out where the most common kinds of planets come from.

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

THESE PLANETS ARE WEIRD! Humanity has long looked up into the night sky and wondered what all those twinkling lights above us really were. With the discovery of the telescope we began to identify ...

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