The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

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 ...

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

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

A “natural history” approach to space exploration would take into account instead developments in the fields of physics, ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...