While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

Now, according to new research published in Science, astronomers have managed to weigh a rogue planet for the first time. The ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

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

Finding a planet is one thing; proving it is a planet when it has no star is the part that usually breaks the story. A newly ...

A NEWLY discovered rogue planet without a host star like the sun to orbit around has been detected dashing through space on its lonesome. These planets – also known as free-floating planets ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

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

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...