New photos of the recently discovered asteroid 2024 MK, which zoomed past Earth in late June, reveal that the massive space ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

Planets like Earth shouldn't get too close to their bigger, bullying neighbors. Jupiter-size worlds can wreck life-friendly conditions on their smaller neighbors.

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

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The conclusion that most rogue worlds are small makes more sense than the idea that they are Jupiter-size, Dr. Bennett said. That’s because planets are thought to go rogue when two protoplanets ...

Thanks to the map, the researchers found about 20 of these weird massive structures, which varied in size, but were about 300-400 kg/m 3 more dense than the surrounding rock.