Finding a planet is one thing; proving it is a planet when it has no star is the part that usually breaks the story. A newly ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not all planets are lucky enough to live in a neighborhood like our Solar System – some are doomed to roam the cosmos alone.

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 ...

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