The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (streaming now on Peacock) is an intimate story about depression, set against the backdrop of the apocalypse. The feelings experienced by Justine (Kirsten Dunst) are ...

While almost every planet we’ve ever found orbits a star of some kind, there are some loners that roam the cosmos entirely on their own. Now, astronomers have spotted the smallest of these “rogue ...

Scientists have used gravitational lensing to detect a so-called 'rogue planet' that doesn't orbit a star and floats freely in space. The planet is relatively small, but researchers can't tell for ...

Adolescents have growth spurts that can leave them unrecognizable in a year, but ever heard of a planet with this experience? A team of astronomers has witnessed it and published the insights in The ...

Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope, and the find is thanks to a little serendipity — and a little help from the genius himself, ...

Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything witnessed before in a free-floating planet. The rogue planet, which ...

Lars von Trier’s 2011 end of the world story Melancholia (streaming now on Peacock) features one of the most intimate apocalypses ever put to film. It involves the whole of the world but is seen ...

A new rogue planet was discovered by scientists. They said that it is currently the smallest one ever to be documented. This LONELY Planet Has No Star, Days, Nights, and Emits No Radiation; Scientists ...

Contrary to popular belief, not all planets orbit stars – some drift freely through the cosmos on their own. These cold, dark worlds don’t make great candidates for hosting life, but a new study ...

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 ...