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

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

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

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

The distance and the mass of a free-floating planet were measured for the first time as astronomers speculated on the nature ...

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

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

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

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

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In fact, these ...