Jupiter, as always, is a dazzling object, shining among the stars of Gemini the Twins. It reaches opposition on Jan. 10; this ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

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

Every planet in the solar system leans, some gently, some dramatically, and that tilt quietly shapes everything from our ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...