The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...

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

Scientists measure a Saturn-sized rogue planet drifting through the Milky Way using rare Earth and space observations, revealing how planets can be ejected from their original systems.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a “rogue planet”, a world about the size of Saturn, that is wandering through ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, an isolated world drifting through the Milky Way without a host ...

Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...

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

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...