Astronomers have detected a rogue planet roughly the size of Saturn wandering alone through the Milky Way. Unlike most ...

Situated roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, the planet lacks a parent star and instead drifts solo through space.

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...

A Saturn-mass planet, which had been drifting alone through space after escaping the gravitational pull of its star, has been captured by a Korean ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a “rogue planet”, a world about the size of Saturn, that is wandering through ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

Scientists measure a Saturn-sized rogue planet drifting through the Milky Way using rare Earth and space observations, revealing how planets can be ejected from their original systems.

A "rogue planet" is growing at a record-breaking rate of six billion tons per second, reveals new research. Located around 620 light-years away from Earth, scientists say it has experienced a ...