A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...

Some planets do not orbit stars at all. These rogue worlds drift through interstellar space after being ejected from their ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

A team of astronomers led by Carnegie has uncovered the clearest evidence yet that a rocky planet outside our Solar System has an atmosphere. Using ...

Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away in the ...

A new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ...

An illustration of the collision. (Andy Tzanidakis) A distant star whose light suddenly flickered like a guttering candle has ...

Moons orbiting rogue planets, worlds flung from their parent star systems into the cold of interstellar space, could maintain ...