Aurora borealis is the scientific name for the atmospheric light show visible to the naked eye that can be viewed in far ...

On some, whipping winds send a rain of glass flying sideways; others have a core of carbon compressed into diamond. Take a ...

These starless worlds are difficult to find and study, but this particular one is teaching us new lessons about the universe.

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.

Astronomers have spotted rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second, a ...

The growth spurt hints that the free-floating object evolves like a star, providing clues about rogue planets’ mysterious origins.

Astronomers have discovered that a "rogue" planet is going through a massive growth spurt and it's eating everything around ...

A runaway “rogue planet” is gorging on space dust at a rate of six billion tonnes per second. The event marks the fastest planetary growth ever observed, hinting that some planets form more like stars ...

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust and gas per ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...