Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

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Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...

May 1, 2025 — The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager ... in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected.

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

The word “retrograde” has a way of inciting fear or at least a surge of anxiety, but the truth of the matter is that every ...

Pluto in retrograde kicks off the week, which might amp up any tense or irritable vibes.

The problem with trying to see the world is it only makes you hungrier. It is bigger, more interesting than you imagined.

To mark the 20th anniversary of "Revenge of the Sith" and because it's May the Fourth, we're ranking all 11 movies in the ...

Celestial shifts are bringing romantic, imaginative, steamy highs and intensely emotional dips this month. These are the the ...