While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

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

Astronomers have identified a giant planet circling a tiny red dwarf star at a distance so extreme that it sits about 690 times farther from its star than Earth is from the Sun. The discovery pushes ...

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The planet may have formed from material transferred between the stars. We live in interesting times, when we can not only detect planets in other star systems, but also have some understanding on how ...

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

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...