A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

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

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

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

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

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere ...

Astronomers have spotted a "rogue planet" hurtling through space entirely alone after being "ejected" by its host star. The ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was blocked using a coronagraph to reveal a planet to its right. The light at the ...

A lonely world the size of Saturn is drifting through the Milky Way with no star to warm it, and for the first time ...