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

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 just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Astronomers who study stars are providing a valuable assist to the planet-hunting astronomers pursuing the primary objective of NASA’s new TESS mission. In fact, asteroseismologists — stellar ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual, a planet that doesn’t orbit any star. It’s just drifting alone through space.