Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

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

Planets travel alone in space, without a parent star. These wandering worlds, far from being rare, might even be extremely ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, known for its massive size, strong gravity, powerful storms and many moons ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

In a new study, a team of astrophysicists, including two researchers at CU Boulder, have discovered a small and rocky world orbiting a star far from Earth—similar to our own planet, perhaps, but much ...

Is our Milky Way galaxy home to other planets the size of Earth? Are Earth-sized planets common or rare? NASA scientists seeking answers to those questions recently revealed their discovery. “We went ...

An analysis of the first three years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission, which already has discovered thousands of potential exoplanets, contains good news for those searching for habitable worlds ...

Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system. Newspapers around the world printed the discovery on their front pages: Astronomers had found that ...

Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) estimate that six percent of red dwarf stars in the galaxy have ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual, a planet that doesn’t orbit any star. It’s just drifting alone through space.