Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...

Relying on information from NASA's TESS telescope, astronomers Edward Bryant from the University of Warwick and Vincent Van ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a “rogue planet”, a world about the size of Saturn, that is wandering through ...

SpaceX leads the week’s launch manifest with three scheduled missions and, at the time of publishing, is the sole launch ...

Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...

Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

It also pushed them to tighten their standards, especially when the conversation shifts from “interesting chemistry” to ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive gas planet in a place it should never exist, orbiting one of the smallest stars in the ...

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

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...