Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

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

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

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

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

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

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...

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

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Scientists measure a Saturn-sized rogue planet drifting through the Milky Way using rare Earth and space observations, revealing how planets can be ejected from their original systems.

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...