A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said.

For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are. Rogue planets—planets that are adrift in ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...

The galaxy is getting messy: astronomers have found planets that meander around space without neatly orbiting a star. This contradicts everything we learned in our 8th grade science class.