"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by ...

Astronomers have discovered a hungry baby planet gobbling up material around an infant star located around 430 light-years from Earth. The planet has been given the suitably cute name WISPIT 2b.

There is a dwarf planet out in the Kuiper Belt that has been named Quaoar, and it tends to get more attention than would normally be expected. This is for several reasons, including the fact that it ...