Rogue planets may have more in common with stars like our sun than astronomers realized. About 620 light-years from Earth, a ...

The world's oceans are bearing the brunt of a triple environmental crisis, according to the European Union's Earth monitors: ...

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Astronomers have spotted rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second, a ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

A runaway “rogue planet” is gorging on space dust at a rate of six billion tonnes per second. The event marks the fastest planetary growth ever observed, hinting that some planets form more like stars ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Astronomers have discovered that a "rogue" planet is going through a massive growth spurt and it's eating everything around ...