Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared ...

Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A group of scientists has discovered what they believe to be rogue planets hidden in ...

The researchers believe that rogue moons may actually outnumber free-floating planets, and be as common as stars. Once flung away from its host planet, the fate of a free-floating moon is ...

But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are. Rogue planets—planets that are adrift in space, unmoored from any star—have been a topic of science fiction for a long time ...