Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Thus, these white dwarf stars can serve as unique, if distant, laboratories for studying the insides of demolished planets that are otherwise out of reach ... by the Milky Way-mapping Gaia ...

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters ... like stars in circular planar orbits between out to 400 Earth-Sun distances from their parent star.

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.

Firstly, the study found that a high percentage of planets orbiting red dwarf stars (the most abundant type of star in the Milky Way) could generate their own heat. “We found that when one ...

A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole ... That black hole happens to be Sagittarius A*, the one at the middle of the Milky Way. The finding not only sheds light on such stars ...

The night sky is putting on a celestial show with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet.

Milky Way of dreams This ... white half-moon peeks out from behind. Earth from space This distant view of Earth in the galaxy captures the serene beauty of our planet in space, a view we rarely ...

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas visible ...