A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

To reach Uranus is to journey into the absolute unknown. Situated in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, nearly 3 billion kilometers from the Sun, this Ice Giant is a world of paradoxes. It is ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped new images of the ...

Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A cluster of recent discoveries has shattered that tidy picture, revealing ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first ...

Finding new worlds out there is pretty exciting, right? Scientists are getting really good at spotting planets around other ...