After clearing its last hurdle on its way to space, the Pandora satellite mission is awaiting to be launched into orbit, ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

The launch window for a small satellite developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opened this week at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive gas planet in a place it should never exist, orbiting one of the smallest stars in the ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...