Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

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

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

Hubina, a village near Piešťany, holds some new findings in the midst of a forest. A mushroom picker discovered two copper objects with a smooth shiny surface, made of red gold and carved with details ...

I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...