Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

Astronomers have found a massive cloud of metallic winds orbiting a mystery object in space. The cloud was found when ...

Comet 3I Atlas is the third confirmed object ever observed entering the Solar System from interstellar space, News.Az reports ...

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth — ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

The cast of exoplanets has an extraordinary new member. Using ESO’s telescopes, astronomers have discovered an approximately seven- Jupiter-mass companion to an object that is itself only twice as ...

The Planetary Society continues to fund the search for potentially hazardous comets and asteroids that orbit close to our planet by awarding Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants to five researchers ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...

A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an ...

"Planetary-mass objects don't fit neatly into existing categories of stars or planets." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Are they ...

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. A groundbreaking study published ...

Humanity has long wondered if we are being watched from the stars, but the answer might lie in our own exhaust fumes. As the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS moves through the inner Solar System, ...