Space is a vast and infinitely expansive area with many things we know little about. If we look at how our Solar System moves ...

Snowmen floating in space: far from being a fantasy, this shape appears on some icy objects at the far reaches of the Solar System. How can such particular structures come into being? These ...

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

Space is a cosmic junkyard filled with surprising items. From a Tesla Roadster to a lost toolbox, these objects tell tales of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never ...

Astronomers have uncovered a runaway feeding frenzy in a rogue planet drifting freely through space, devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second. Located 620 light-years away in the ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...