Whether you view it as an educational tool or a geeky space-themed desk toy, there is something incredibly cool about Kristoph Krisjans’ latest Kickstarter campaign. Having previously created the ...

As Earthlings, most of us don’t spend a lot of extra time thinking about the gravity on our home planet. Instead, we go about our days only occasionally dropping things or tripping over furniture but ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

Space enthusiast Kristoph Krisjans has created a very unique desktop space exploration system called the Gravity Museum that allows you to compare the gravity between all solar system planets and ...

Ground and space-based telescopes have confirmed a microlensing event caused by a rogue planet wandering silently through the ...

Astronomers suggest that an alternative concept of gravity, known as modified Newtonian dynamics, could explain orbital inconsistencies that have previously pointed to the existence of a ninth planet ...

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

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no ...

Our solar system officially houses eight planets, but some scientists say there could be a ninth. And that’s not just Pluto aficionados – evidence suggests a huge undiscovered world lurks on the dark ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...