A young world drifting alone through space is putting on one of the most violent growth spurts astronomers have ever seen, ...

Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers believe the free-floating planet is around 22 percent the mass of Jupiter and lies 3,000 parsecs from the Milky ...

A NEWLY discovered rogue planet without a host star like the sun to orbit around has been detected dashing through space on ...

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