Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

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A new solar system has been found in the Milky Way. All 6 planets are perfectly in-sync, astronomers say. November 30, 2023 / 3:17 PM EST / CBS/AP Scientists discover "in-sync" solar system .

From this analysis, they estimate that there are about 20 times more free-floating worlds in our Milky Way than stars, with Earth-mass planets 180 times more common than rogue Jupiters.

Planets orbiting red dwarf stars may have a harder time hanging on to the conditions needed for life to arise and survive than previously thought, data from NASA's dead space telescope GALEX reveals.

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are. Rogue planets—planets that are ...

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.

A waning crescent Moon will pass close to Jupiter, Uranus, Mars and Venus, occulting Mars and Uranus. As the night sky darkens the Milky Way will become more easily visible.

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.