A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets…
The search for potentially habitable planets is focused on exoplanets—planets orbiting other stars—for good reason. The only planet we know…
When a young solar system gets going it's little more than a young star and a rotating disk of debris.…
Last year we reported on how the Roman Space Telescope’s backers hoped it would be able to detect rogue planets…
A rocky world might not need a star to be habitable. It might just need to orbit a large gas…
Consumption and disintegration. Next time you want to be the life of the party—if you're hanging out with cool nerds…
If a solar system is a family, then some planets leave home early. Whether they want to or not. Once…
A team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma have discovered "planetary mass bodies" outside of the Milky Way. They…
In a new study, a team from Caltech recently used the Very Large Array to confirm that a rogue planet…
Free-floating rogue planets are intriguing objects. These planet-sized bodies adrift in interstellar space were predicted to exist in 1998, and…