The New Horizons Pluto flyby revealed unexpectedly complex geological features on dwarf planets, prompting further investigation into the diversity within the Kuiper Belt. Several dwarf planets, ...

Recent scientific observations have sparked a flurry of questions and theories about the Red Planet. Anomalies detected over ...

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National Geographic is getting weird tonight—literally. Across six episodes, National Geographic's new show Planet Weird is celebrating some of the planet's most extraordinary wild characters, each ...

This handout artist’s impression released on October 2, 2025 shows Cha 1107-7626, a rogue planet located about 620 light-years away about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star.

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with ...

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 ...

The discovery of a strange wobbling planet has left astronomers confused but could reveal the secrets of planet formation. The new exoplanet, named TOI-1408 c, is situated about 455 light-years from ...

A distant world may have formed inside a doomed star. This star was ripped apart by its smaller, denser companion – a dense stellar corpse called a white dwarf – and the planet could have formed from ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet with a highly oblong orbit that experiences wild temperature swings — and it may be transitioning into another type of world. The exoplanet, named TIC 241249530 ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday.