Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars ...

These celestial bodies are known as brown dwarfs, often referred to as galactic oddballs because they form out of collapsing ...

Instead they circled a pulsar, the dead remains of an exploded star. Clearly nature excels at making planets, even under ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look largely the same across an average human lifetime, there are dramatic examples ...

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Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three main groups of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in the outer Solar System.

Rogue planets live by their own rules, freely floating through the cosmos without being bound to a star. With no stellar supervision, those isolated planetary bodies can often behave in unusual ways.

NASA says June's skies are packed with celestial events, starting with tonight's conjunction.

A mysterious "rogue planet" has been observed gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second — an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...