Finding a planet is one thing; proving it is a planet when it has no star is the part that usually breaks the story. A newly ...
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 ...
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.
Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
The Saturn-sized celestial object is one of the clearest examples yet of a planet drifting through space without a host star.