Not every planet has a star to call home. Some may wander through the Galaxy alone — and finding them is one of astronomy’s currently most intriguing challenges. When we think of planets, we usually imagine worlds orbiting stars, just like Earth orbits the Sun. But the Universe may be home to a much stranger population: planets that travel through space without a parent star. An artistic depiction of a free-floating planet drifting amidst a sea of stars, capturing the solitud

In our latest analysis, now published as a Research Note of the AAS , we focus on a star we know well: the Sun. When it comes to lithium,...

I’m thrilled to share that our latest paper, “ Probing the Origins I: Generalised Additive Model inference of birth radii for Milky Way...

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Maria Luiza Linhares Dantas, a postdoctoral researcher at the Nicolaus Copernicus...