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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions, we have to first understand the process of how stars form. While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is ...

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 ...

The planets in our Solar System orbit the Sun at different speeds ... Life Alignments also assist in studying distant galaxies. Gravitational lensing magnifies the light from early galaxies ...