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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

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

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