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 finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...
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 ...
Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...