Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no ...

Jupiter.... Uranus.... Saturn... Earth? Sadly, Earth didn't make it onto the list of the Solar System's ringed planets. If it ...

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

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Research suggests that Saturn's rings don’t end where the eye expects - specks of ring material seem to float above and below ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system. A new study strengthens the case for Enceladus being a habitable world.

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...