PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Scientists have recently focused their telescopes on a mysterious planet drifting through space, a discovery that has ...

A baby exoplanet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a never-before-seen view of ...

With just a small or medium-sized telescope, skygazers can easily observe planets. You’ll be surprised how much of our solar system you can see! And you don’t need a dark sky to view all of our solar ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

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

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. Using data from NASA’s James ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings ...

On Thursday, NASA announced that they'd given up on repair attempts to the Kepler Space Telescope, after a second navigational wheel critical to the spacecraft's mission (there are four in total) ...