Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary exoplanet circling a pulsar, a remnant of a exploded massive star. Named PSR ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

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

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

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...