Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. Subscribe to our ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." Our parochial view of planets orbiting a central star — so familiar because it is the ...

"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 ...

Billionaires make it seem that we have all the tech we need to settle on the moon and Mars. But the hard part of living in space is adapting the human body to extraterrestrial conditions. Business ...

India's first astronaut, Shubhanshu Shukla, shared insights on the challenges of eating and drinking in space, emphasizing ...