In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

Rogue planets are "free-floating planets" that are not bound by the gravitational pull of any star. Hence, these bodies do not orbit a star. The planets in our solar system are gravitationally ...

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about that made-up rogue planet Nbiru, which some believed would pop-up to collide with or otherwise majorly disrupt Earth’s orbit, spelling doom for all ...

Six rogue planets that have been spotted floating in the abyss of space may help reveal the secrets of how these cosmic phenomena are born. These six rogue planets, which are between five and 10 ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Caption This animation illustrates the concept of gravitational microlensing with a rogue planet — a planet that does not orbit a star. When the rogue planet appears to pass nearly in front of a ...

It could also be a rogue planet — a planet without a star system — about four times heavier than Jupiter with a small moon. Using data from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the European ...