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

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

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

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a “rogue planet”, a world about the size of Saturn, that is wandering through ...

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, ...

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

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Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is only the third to be found on the outskirts of our galaxy's dense central ...

This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is extremely ...

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