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

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

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

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

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have unveiled the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star, a sprawling structure where gas ...