A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully achieved the first direct mass measurement of a free-floating object, confirming that it is a planet with a mass comparable to that of Saturn. This key ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

Scientists are puzzled by the discovery of a perfectly spherical object floating in the Milky Way, which emits only radio signals. Named Teleios, this strange structure does not give off visible light ...

A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up some six billion tons of gas and dust each second over a couple of months. A ...

Space is full of weird objects that don’t make sense according to what scientists thought they knew about the universe, and the last couple of years have been amazing for finding completely bonkers ...