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

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

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

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 ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the mass of a rogue planet, a celestial body wandering through space ...

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

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

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

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