Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

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

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

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

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do ...

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