The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

Astronomers have finally pinned down the mass and distance of a lonely world that drifts through the galaxy without a parent ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to weigh a planet that is not bound to any star, a lonely world drifting through ...

Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

Just because Pluto was ruled out as a planet in 2006 doesn’t mean our solar system only has eight planets. The search for Planet Nine is far from over as scientists continue to uncover clues ...

From January 6 to 9, 2026, the two planets will approach the Sun in what astronomers describe as a conjunction — a ...

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A team of astronomers from Taiwan has uncovered promising evidence suggesting the existence of Planet 9, a hypothesized planet beyond Pluto in the far reaches of our Solar System. This new potential ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...