According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

This capture shows the vast scale of the hypnotic Milky Way in all of its glory. The galaxy ... real. Yet captured by NASA, ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Scientists have discovered that our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... but is it real? At 40 light years away from Earth, TRAPPIST-1's four Goldilocks zone planets are one of the prime candidates ...