Astronomers Discover a Rogue Planet the Size of Saturn Drifting Through Our Galaxy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new observations, recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, were made at the European Southern Observatory (ESO ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters has shaken up our understanding of rogue planets—those free-floating worlds drifting through the cosmos without the warmth or stability of a ...

Astronomers have spotted a "rogue" planet gobbling gas and dust at a record rate, and they can't explain its baffling behavior. Although many rogue planets, which float freely through space without ...

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 ...

The formation of planets is a fascinating process. They usually originate in a disc of dust and gas surrounding stars. When particles come together, they form a clump, and through a process called ...

How fast can rogue planets grow? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the discovery of a rogue planet that ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system. The free-floating planet is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of ...