New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for ...

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

By Chris WoolstonThe giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space ...

Mark Medley is The Globe and Mail’s Deputy Opinion Editor. He is the author of Live to See the Day: Impossible Goals, ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

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

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 ...

The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...

Simultaneous ground- and space-based observations of a newly discovered free-floating planet have enabled direct measurement of its mass and distance from Earth, according to a new study. The findings ...

A lonely world the size of Saturn is drifting through the Milky Way with no star to warm it, and for the first time ...