For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the mass of a rogue planet, a celestial body wandering through space ...

Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a discovery that turns a once-theoretical idea into a measured reality. The planet ...

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

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

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) estimate that six percent of red dwarf stars in the galaxy have ...