Astronomers have detected a rogue planet roughly the size of Saturn wandering alone through the Milky Way. Unlike most ...

A lonely world the size of Saturn is drifting through the Milky Way with no star to warm it, and for the first time ...

Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a free-floating planet for the first time. Learn more about it.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a “rogue planet”, a world about the size of Saturn, that is wandering through space untethered to any star or moon. The object was observed through a ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

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

When NASA's next-generation space observatory launches in a few years, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will expand the search for exoplanets as well as rogue planets, or worlds that travel ...

A large proportion of the most common type of planet in the galaxy could be situated in the habitable "Goldilocks Zone" of their solar system, research has found. Astronomers from the University of ...