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

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual, a planet that doesn’t orbit any star. It’s just drifting alone through space.

Astronomers have spotted a lonely world roughly the size and mass of Saturn, drifting through the Milky Way without a star to ...

Using observations from both ground-based telescopes and space instruments, they were able to measure the planet's size and ...

Astronomers have spotted a Saturn-sized world drifting through a region of space that theory once said should be almost empty ...

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

The planet Saturn will influence your character, self-esteem and the course of your life in a grave yet supportive manner in ...

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