Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.

These starless worlds are difficult to find and study, but this particular one is teaching us new lessons about the universe.

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in ...

About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust and gas per ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

Webb Telescope spots a carbon-rich disk around a distant planet, CT Cha b, offering rare clues to how moons may form.

A runaway “rogue planet” is gorging on space dust at a rate of six billion tonnes per second. The event marks the fastest planetary growth ever observed, hinting that some planets form more like stars ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...