rogue planet
TESS Finds its First Rogue Planet
Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS,…
4 hours ago
What’s the Source of Binary Rogue Planets?
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is already making great strides in helping us to unravel the mysteries of the…
4 months ago
Hundreds of Free-Floating Planets Found in the Orion Nebula
It appears that rogue planets – free floating worlds that aren’t gravitationally bound to a parent star – might be…
7 months ago
There Could be Trillions of Rogue Planets Wandering the Milky Way
A pair of new studies set to be published in The Astronomical Journal examine new discoveries in the field of…
9 months ago
Massive Planet Gone Rogue Discovered
A massive rogue planet has been discovered in the Beta Pictoris moving group.
8 years ago