Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...
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A lone "rogue" planet finally gets its weight and distance nailed down
Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through ...
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Rare Saturn-sized rogue planet is first to have its mass measured
Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...
Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...
Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...
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