Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...
Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...
While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...
Not all planets are lucky enough to live in a neighborhood like our Solar System – some are doomed to roam the cosmos alone.
Astronomers believe the free-floating planet is around 22 percent the mass of Jupiter and lies 3,000 parsecs from the Milky ...
Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it ...