Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

“The recent Nature paper by Borlaff, Marcum and Howell raises important concerns about our ability to continue gathering ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have successfully achieved the first direct mass measurement of a free-floating object, confirming that it is a planet with a mass comparable to that of ...

"Hubble has given us a front row seat to the chaotic processes that are shaping disks as they build new planets — processes ...

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You are watching a long-held idea in stellar physics face serious scrutiny. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, ...

Although we already know dozens of exoplanets without their own star, their masses could only be estimated. Now a precise ...

Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...

Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...