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

For over two decades, astronomers have been perplexed by the existence of planetary-mass objects, or PMOs, celestial bodies ...

Orion Nebula (Mike Lynch) If your optics are powerful ... These four stars, also known as the Trapezium, were born out of this giant cloud of hydrogen gas an estimated 10 to 100 million years ...

Deep in space, mysterious wanderers roam freely — of planetary masses yet not hosted by stars. These celestial nomads, called ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best must-see attractions ... These four stars, also known as the Trapezium, were born out of this giant cloud of hydrogen gas an estimated 10 million to 100 million ...

Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...

A groundbreaking study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating planetary-mass objects ...

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

We put Starfield Optics' flagship Géar telescope — the Starfield Géar 115 Triplet APO — to the test. It did not disappoint.

The Géar 115mm also beautifully displayed the quadruple Trapezium system in the Orion Nebula (M42). The view took my breath away as I stared at the four blue-white stellar sapphires twinkling ...