Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet drifting alone through the Milky Way, detected briefly by bent starlight, ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

This week, the giant planet Jupiter will be at its closest approach to Earth in 2026, offering skywatchers an unmissable view ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Skywatchers can enjoy supermoons, eclipses, meteor showers, and rare planet alignments in 2026. Discover key celestial events ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...

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

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...