The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues ...

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

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

Thirty years ago, on a crisp October day in 1995, two Swiss astronomers changed the course of cosmic history. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, working at the University of Geneva, announced the ...

A new model from a Florida Tech professor suggests how planets are formed may determine if they have water. The study proposes that some planets may be "born dry" because they lack a way to attract ...

On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the risky ...

Scientists have observed a “rogue planet” that is growing at an alarming rate as it gobbles up six billion tons of gas and dust every second, a new paper revealed. The newly studied object, formally ...

Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

A mysterious "rogue planet" has been observed gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second — an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...