Quite far beyond the Milky Way is a lone planet that astronomers found new information about. For the first time, scientists ...

Planets travel alone in space, without a parent star. These wandering worlds, far from being rare, might even be extremely common, offering a new and unprecedented view of our galaxy. To ...

Specifically the CfA team looked at 95 planet candidates orbiting 64 red dwarf stars using publically available data obtained by NASA’s star-gazing telescope Kepler. Most of these candidates aren’t ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASA’s planet-hunting mission TESS has found ...