For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record rate of 6.6 billion tons per second.

A runaway “rogue planet” is gorging on space dust at a rate of six billion tonnes per second. The event marks the fastest planetary growth ever observed, hinting that some planets form more like stars ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

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

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

Astronomers and astrochemists reviewed years’ of research to try and resolve a simple question – is cosmic dust porous?

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust and gas per ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered an extraordinary star, SDSS J0715-7334, which may be the most “pristine” object ever ...