The galaxy is expected to be home to billions of free-floating, or "rogue", planets that have no stellar companion. These ...

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.

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

Astronomers have measured the mass and distance of a rogue planet using gravitational microlensing observed from Earth and ...

Ground and space-based telescopes have confirmed a microlensing event caused by a rogue planet wandering silently through the ...

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 have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

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

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

Astronomers have identified a rare type of planet wandering through the Milky Way without a host star. Roughly the mass of ...