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

Astronomers have directly observed a free-floating planet, comparable in mass to Earth, roaming the Milky Way. Discovered via ...

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

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

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of planet wandering through the Milky Way without a host star. Roughly the mass of ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...

What's the size of the Milky Way galaxy? Learn how, depending on your definition, the size can change.

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...