Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

A planet about the size of Saturn has been discovered roaming through the Milky Way. It is a rogue body that was kicked out ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

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

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

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

Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a discovery that turns a once-theoretical idea into a measured reality. The planet ...

Using observations from both ground-based telescopes and space instruments, they were able to measure the planet's size and ...