For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...

The “space dust” which helps to form the stars and planets around the cosmos is spongier than previously thought, a group of scientists have found. The international group of astronomers and ...

A ravenous rogue planet has been caught eating 6 billion tonnes of gas and dust per second. This behaviour blurs the line between planets and stars, suggesting both can form in similar ways. Rogue ...

(Handout/EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY/AFP) A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between ...

A mysterious "rogue planet" has been observed gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second — an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...

A mysterious comet flying through our solar system may be doing more than just passing by—it could help explain how giant planets like Jupiter are born. At a major planetary science conference in ...

Why does humanity live on a planet orbiting a rare G-type dwarf star (like our Sun) when M-type red dwarfs comprise 82% of stars and are 33 times more abundant? Why do we live so early (1% into) the ...

A mysterious "rogue planet" has been observed gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second — an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...

Astronomers have identified an enormous "growth spurt" in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The ...

"This is the strongest accretion episode ever recorded for a planetary-mass object." Scientists have identified a lone planet with a ferocious appetite. Located in the Chamaeleon constellation roughly ...

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