– January 7, 2026 (London time) – One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the size of Earth and Neptune within the orbit ...

Scientists weighed newborn planets for the first time, revealing puffy worlds that will shrink into super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, the galaxy's most common planets. (Nanowerk News) One of the biggest ...

The Milky Way, the galaxy that houses our solar system, is an enormous and complex structure filled with mysteries, motion and magnificent phenomena. Despite being our galactic home, many of us know ...

Planets have been found across our galaxy, from Sweeps-11b in its central regions (at nearly 28,000 light years away, one of the most distant ever discovered) to those orbiting our nearest stellar ...

A lonely world the size of Saturn is drifting through the Milky Way with no star to warm it, and for the first time astronomers have managed to weigh it. By catching a fleeting alignment between this ...