Social feeds are filling with breathless claims that on 8/12/26, Earth will briefly “turn off” gravity for seven seconds, ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets seem to have been knocked out of their orbits, floating through space free ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...