Astronomers Discover a Rogue Planet the Size of Saturn Drifting Through Our Galaxy ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Astronomers may have uncovered how the most common types of planets in our Galaxy grow, a new study has revealed. The discovery confirms astronomers’ theories that these planets start as 'bloated' ...

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 ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...