Astronomers have spent years searching for a possible hidden giant planet far beyond Neptune. Unusual orbits among distant ...

Scientists have discovered a previously overlooked line of symmetry that splits the Earth into Eastern and Western ...

Astronomer using European Southern Observatory telescopes have discovered at least 70 new rogue planets lurking in the Milky ...

Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...

A new study suggests that a massive structure beyond Jupiter trapped the cosmic dust needed to form the first building blocks ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

Instead they circled a pulsar, the dead remains of an exploded star. Clearly nature excels at making planets, even under ...

The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new exoplanets.

"It’s incredible to think there was once a world this large." The post Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert ...

A hot, rocky planet discovered using the Kepler space telescope is the smallest ever found outside our solar system. The new planet, called Kepler-37b, has a radius less than a third the size of Earth ...

A new satellite survey has found nearly 30 unusual planets orbiting two stars instead of one, similar to Tatooine, the fictional home of Star Wars protagonist Luke Skywalker. Such circumbinary planets ...