Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

More than 1 million "interstellar objects" the size of the Statue of Liberty ... was ejected from Alpha Centauri — the closest star system to Earth — over the last 100 million years.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the colourful ejections of two protostars at the centre of Lynds 483.

There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown ...

An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic objects are linked to the chaotic dynamics of young star clusters. How do rogue planetary-mass ...

PMOs are cosmic nomads, drifting freely through space, unbound to any star. The mass of these objects is less than 13 times that of Jupiter. They are often observed in young star clusters like the ...