A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Scientists now have direct evidence that a planet — not just failed stars — can rove the galaxy after a violent expulsion from its orbit. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt illustration Astronomers have ...

What can the galactic habitable zone (GHZ), galactic regions where complex life is hypothesized to be able to evolve, teach scientists about finding the correct stars that could have habitable planets ...

What is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3's fleshy tentacle planet that The Guardians spacewalk on in the trailer? Here's how ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is only the third to be found on the outskirts of our galaxy's dense central ...

– January 7, 2026 (London time) – One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the size of Earth and Neptune within the orbit ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope. This rare dual perspective allowed them to weigh the planet and pinpoint ...

Astronomers have confirmed for the first time with direct evidence that a lone, starless world is actually drifting through the Milky Way. Though scientists have documented a dozen of these so-called ...

Scientists weighed newborn planets for the first time, revealing puffy worlds that will shrink into super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, the galaxy's most common planets. (Nanowerk News) One of the biggest ...