Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

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

The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...

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

In Jack (1996), when Robin Williams as Jack says “Make your life spectacular”, it lands with the weight of someone who knows ...

The imbalance isn’t new, only its scale. In Dürer’s Melencolia I, etched a decade before his treatise, a winged figure broods ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

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

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

The Irish 100m record had been proving very stubborn until Israel Olatunde came along, first breaking the 10.18 mark set by ...

Although we already know dozens of exoplanets without their own star, their masses could only be estimated. Now a precise ...

Astronomers have weighed a lonely planet drifting through the Milky Way, using a rare cosmic alignment. How this exiled world ...