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

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

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

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

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...

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

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...