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

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

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

Astronomers believe the free-floating planet is around 22 percent the mass of Jupiter and lies 3,000 parsecs from the Milky ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

There are 14 World Surfing Reserves around the globe, spread across four continents. The designation is assigned by the ...