Astronomers have spotted a lonely world roughly the size and mass of Saturn, drifting through the Milky Way without a star to orbit. The discovery turns a once theoretical curiosity into a concrete ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

Astronomers have spotted a Saturn-sized world drifting through a region of space that theory once said should be almost empty, a so‑called Einstein desert where planets are notoriously hard to find.

When you've been quarantining for weeks on end and the walls around you start to feel like they're closing in, losing yourself in the dream of getting the hell off this planet is a fantasy worth ...

A mere decade ago astronomers knew of just 62 moons around Saturn. Today the ringed planet boasts a staggering 274 official satellites. That’s more than any other world in the solar system—and far too ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no glow to catch the eye, just a brief distortion when it passes in front of ...