I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters --- unbound to any star system ...

The different speeds of the planets mean that ... namely the alignments of galaxies. Observing galaxies in the very early universe is difficult because they are so faint and far away.

Occasionally, the different speeds mean that at one point several planets line up on the same ... enable the understanding of the alignment of galaxies. The process of 'gravitational lensing ...

Orbiting the Sun 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has looked back in time over 13 billion years, capturing never seen galaxies and planets. Astronomer Michael ...

Planet-forming or 'protoplanetary ... Researchers used the VLT to study the 86 young stars across three different star-forming regions of our galaxy –Taurus, Chamaeleon I and Orion.

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.

One key aspect of planetary development in the galaxy is the presence of metals ... results suggest that stars hosting high-mass planets have a different iron-to-hydrogen ratio and age ...