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

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

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no ...

Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet drifting alone through the Milky Way, detected briefly by bent starlight, ...

Astronomers have finally pinned down the mass and distance of a lonely world that drifts through the galaxy without a parent ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying behavior similar to how stars form. Scientists aren't clear as to why. When you ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.