The U.S. Space and Rocket Center, amid its AI symposium, highlights AI education's critical role, while its acclaimed ...

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around them. But we’ve also discovered a handful ...

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Astronomers have detected a rogue planet with a mass equivalent to that of Saturn, and by taking observations from both the ground and space, they have also been able to measure its size and distance ...

Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet the size of Saturn is floating all on its own through empty space. In a stroke of luck, researchers were able to spot this strange, dark world using both ...

When we imagine a planet, we think of one like ours, orbiting a star. But some have a far lonelier existence, drifting through interstellar space without a sun to call their own. Known as “rogue” or ...

A rare combination of Earth- and space-based observations has revealed the true mass and location of a rogue planet drifting through the galaxy. The Saturn-sized world likely formed around a star ...