Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent ...

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within the binary star system TOI-2267, located approximately 190 light-years from Earth. An inter ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

Astronomers have taken their clearest look yet at how some of the biggest stars in our galaxy are born—and it turns out the ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...

Artist’s impression of Cha 1107-7626. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser When we think of planets, we imagine steady worlds orbiting stars. But astronomers have just caught a free-floating planet in ...

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 ...

Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything witnessed before in a free-floating planet. The rogue planet, which ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers discovered a free-floating rogue planet with a mass 10 times heavier than Jupiter, and it's growing at an unprecedented rate. The rogue planet, named as such because it ...

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