An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during ...

Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

Scientists now have direct evidence that a planet — not just failed stars — can rove the galaxy after a violent expulsion from its orbit. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt illustration Astronomers have ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the ...

The Euclid space telescope unveiled seven more rogue planets in an image of the Horesehead Nebula, roughly 1,500 light years from Earth. Making the find even more incredible is that these ...

At the end of 2021 humanity launched into a distant orbit the most technologically advanced (and expensive) space telescope ever made. Now parked at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) in the ...

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Scientists weighed newborn planets for the first time, revealing puffy worlds that will shrink into super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, the galaxy's most common planets. (Nanowerk News) One of the biggest ...