The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics figured out, space reveals something so bizarre it rewrites the rulebook. These ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

Venus is often called Earth's evil twin due to its size, mass, material composition, and density. It even feels like Venus should've become a second Earth. However, it ended up being one of the ...

About 620 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon, a strange planet is devouring everything around it at a furious pace. Cha 1107-7626, a “rogue” planet because it doesn’t orbit a star, has ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s possible for these distant worlds. And when we say say “stretch, ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.