Jupiter, as always, is a dazzling object, shining among the stars of Gemini the Twins. It reaches opposition on Jan. 10; this ...

Astronomers have spotted a lonely world roughly the size and mass of Saturn, drifting through the Milky Way without a star to ...

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

A NEWLY discovered rogue planet without a host star like the sun to orbit around has been detected dashing through space on ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

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

By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

Astronomers believe the free-floating planet is around 22 percent the mass of Jupiter and lies 3,000 parsecs from the Milky ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a dramatic planetary breakup.