Astronomers have recently tracked a massive rogue planet, referred to as a “super-Jupiter,” that is drifting toward our solar neighborhood. This discovery has captured the attention of the scientific ...

Rogue planets may have more in common with stars like our sun than astronomers realized. About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have captured images of extreme weather patterns on a rogue planet, exhibiting atmospheric chaos that surpasses even the turbulent storms of Jupiter. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AFP/Getty) Scientists have spotted a “rogue” planet floating on its own through space. Most of the planets we know are found ...

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...

WASHINGTON - Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all by themselves, called rogue planets. While their origins are ...

A "rogue planet" is growing at a record-breaking rate of six billion tons per second, reveals new research. Located around 620 light-years away from Earth, scientists say it has experienced a ...

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Peking University, January 2, 2026: 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 ...