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

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

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

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

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

This composite image was weeks in the making, as Horálek’s two "crossings" happened months apart. Mars traced its path ...

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 ...

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 ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

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 ...

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 ...