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

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could be created when young star systems clash, meaning they represent an entire ...

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of ...

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 ...

A new study published in The Astronomical Journal has revealed an astonishing possibility: free-floating planets, long considered cosmic castaways, may not be as solitary as once thought. Using the ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

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 ...