This impressive project involved cooperation between multiple countries, as well as a litany of spiralling construction costs ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

A new study published in The Astronomical Journal has revealed an astonishing possibility: free-floating planets, long considered cosmic castaways, may not be as solitary as once thought. Using the ...

Space is full of weird objects that don’t make sense according to what scientists thought they knew about the universe, and the last couple of years have been amazing for finding completely bonkers ...

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...

"This is the strongest accretion episode ever recorded for a planetary-mass object." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists ...

A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up some six billion tons of gas and dust each second over a couple of months. A ...