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

ScienceDaily reports on new research that explains how astronomers measured the mass and distance of a planet that does not orbit a star. The planet travels alone in the Milky Way and is called a free ...

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

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 ...

Observations of a unique microlensing event have led to the discovery of a free-floating rogue planet drifting through the cosmos without a host star, according to an international research team. The ...

Roughly the mass of Saturn, the newly discovered object is a “rogue planet,” a world that drifts alone through interstellar space after being ejected from its original planetary system. This discovery ...

PITTSFIELD — As the world counted down to the end of 2025 on New Year’s Eve, Chris Post was counting down to a more personal finale: the closing of Wandering Star Craft Brewery, the brewery and bar he ...

A rare combination of Earth- and space-based observations has revealed the true mass and location of a rogue planet drifting through the galaxy. The Saturn-sized world likely formed around a star ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do ...

Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the strangest known worlds in the universe. It orbits a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar – this in itself is unusual, but it is ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...