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

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare “rogue planet” outside our solar system, wandering through space without a ...

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

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

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Read the story of these planet-hunting pioneers, who went on to find 70 of the first 100 exoplanets ever discovered. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — confirmed by ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

A rare alignment of two exoplanets with their star, marking one of the few known exosyzygies, an astronomical event involving ...