Earth is a rare cosmic body which supports life with just the right balance of ingredients and is in the optimal zone near the Sun where it is warm enough for life to thrive. Our planet has an ...

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

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

Ground and space-based telescopes have confirmed a microlensing event caused by a rogue planet wandering silently through the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive gas planet in a place it should never exist, orbiting one of the smallest stars in the ...

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

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

Jupiter comes to opposition (is directly opposite the sun) on January 10 and is at its best for 2026 this month. The “King of ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...