A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

Experts have unveiled details of SIMP 0136, a floating planetary mass thought to be around 20 light-years away from the Earth ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 ... floating planetary-mass object” known as SIMP 0136 has continued to stump astronomers for nearly two decades—is it a rogue planet, failed star, or ...

The planet's mass is estimated to be at least 1.3 Jupiter masses. However, given that the inclination of GJ 2126 b is unknown, its mass could be much greater and the possibility that this object ...

Supposedly, this will be the last such alignment of planets until the year 2028. Starwatchers will be able to see Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars. "Planetary alignment is ...