The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

The data was gathered from the deepest-ever survey of NGC1333, a star-forming cluster located about 1,000 light-years from Earth. The newly discovered planets are among the lightest ever detected and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

Scientists have detected a potential exoplanet using an unusual method — tracking shifts in another planet’s orbit. The hot Jupiter TOI-2818b was found to have an unexpected timing variation, hinting ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Eighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken all ... Jupiter and Saturn obediently orbit the sun, and are believed to have formed from the same swirling disk of gas ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by mysterious, planet-sized objects drifting freely through space, unattached to any star. These cosmic wanderers, called planetary-mass objects (PMOs), weigh less ...