Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the researchers.