Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its surroundings ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy without a parent star, turning a once purely theoretical class of worlds into a ...

A lonely world the size of Saturn is drifting through the Milky Way with no star to warm it, and for the first time astronomers have managed to weigh it. By catching a fleeting alignment between this ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope. This rare dual perspective allowed them to weigh the planet and pinpoint ...

Scientists now have direct evidence that a planet — not just failed stars — can rove the galaxy after a violent expulsion from its orbit. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt illustration Astronomers ...

In context: NASA estimates that a single galaxy may harbor trillions of rogue planets. These starless worlds drift alone through interstellar space and have no parent star. They remain challenging to ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift alone through the Milky Way. Astronomers call these objects free-floating ...

Astronomers have confirmed for the first time with direct evidence that a lone, starless world is actually drifting through the Milky Way. Though scientists have documented a dozen of these so-called ...

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Researchers have shown that they can piggyback a signal on a 4,400-kilometer-long telecom cable that runs from California to Hawaii, allowing it to act like 44,000 separate seismic-activity detectors.