The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

A NEWLY discovered rogue planet without a host star like the sun to orbit around has been detected dashing through space on ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

Rogue planets, adrift in the cosmos, may be six times more common than those orbiting stars, a new study proposes. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) In elementary school, you might ...