Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary exoplanet circling a pulsar, a remnant of a exploded massive star. Named PSR ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no star of its own roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth. Instead of circling ...

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

Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...