The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet the size of Saturn is floating all on its own through empty space. In a stroke of luck, researchers were able to spot this strange, dark world using both ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a discovery that turns a once-theoretical idea into a measured reality. The planet ...

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, one that doesn't orbit a star, by measuring ...

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual, a planet that doesn’t orbit any star. It’s just drifting alone through space. About the size of Saturn, th.

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...