Astronomers have identified an enormous "growth spurt" in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University of Padua, trained a spyglass of his own creation on the sky, he was overwhelmed ...

We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that simply ...

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record rate of 6.6 billion tons per second.

You know those really cool floating objects in ads? They’re all dissected, and you think, “How did they do that?” Well, we know how they do it, so for this week’s Shooting Challenge, some Gizmodo ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Many have looked to the sky and scratched their heads this week after noticing mysterious white objects floating high above places like Dayton, Ohio and Kansas City, Missouri. Could ...