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

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.

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

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

There are places in the Universe where you could turn to ash, freeze to death or be completely crushed by gravity. And you're ...

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

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

Scientists measure a Saturn-sized rogue planet drifting through the Milky Way using rare Earth and space observations, revealing how planets can be ejected from their original systems.

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no ...