Rogue planets live by their own rules, freely floating through the cosmos without being bound to a star. With no stellar supervision, those isolated planetary bodies can often behave in unusual ways.

Described by scientists as an object 'still in its infancy', with an age of one to two million years, Cha 1107-7626 is already 10 times the mass of Jupiter, and is not only growing, but growing at an ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states that Earth and humans do not occupy a special or privileged place in the ...

The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007 in archival data collected back in 2001, and scientists were pretty boggled. Lasting just milliseconds, the incredibly powerful spike of ...

In December 2024, Buddhist monks from Japan attempted unsuccessfully to send a small temple on board a satellite into orbit. The rocket did make it more than 110km from Earth, making it the first time ...

The finding suggests phosphine—a potential biosignature—shouldn’t be viewed as evidence of alien life until natural, non-biological sources are ruled out.

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has dramatically transformed the field of astronomy since its launch, precipitating groundbreaking discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of the ...

Astronomy news today is packed with discoveries about the Sun, including tiny solar loops and hidden engines that drive solar explosions. NASA just confirmed its 6,000th exoplanet, and some of these ...

Earth keeps an eye on the Sun for good reason. In 2025, a fresh crew of satellites is keeping tabs on everything from solar flares to mysterious plasma flows. This is about more than curiosity—solar ...