For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, one that doesn't orbit a star, by measuring ...

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

A lonely world the size of Saturn is drifting through the Milky Way with no star to warm it, and for the first time ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a “rogue planet”, a world about the size of Saturn, that is wandering through ...

Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

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A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the ...