Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

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 ...

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

Jupiter, as always, is a dazzling object, shining among the stars of Gemini the Twins. It reaches opposition on Jan. 10; this ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

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

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

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

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

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