The discovery of a rogue planet with a disk around it indicates the presence of "mini planets" or moons. Study co-author Aleks Scholz, an astrophysicist at Scotland's University of St. Andrews ...

In the quest to understand the universe’s many mysteries, astronomers are looking for potentially trillions of elusive space objects called rogue worlds. These stellar objects blur the lines between ...

There are current estimates of between 100 and 100,000 rogue planets for every star in Milky Way. A study from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University predicts that the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

In the latest discovery made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astrophysicists detected six wandering rogue planets unbound from the gravitational influence of any star.

Thus far, only a handful of good rogue planet candidates have been identified, but we have located at least two objects that could fit the definition -- CFBDSIR 2149-0403, an object containing no ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted six rogue planets drifting freely through space, untethered from the gravity of any companion stars. The planets are wandering through the Perseus ...

Rogue planets are incredibly difficult to detect because they generally emit no light of their own. Gravitational microlensing offers one of the few ways to find them, but distinguishing between a ...

Planetary Delights: A rogue planet is an interstellar body with planetary mass that is not gravitationally bound to any "parent" star or star-like object. The exact process by which rogue planets ...

Estimating even a modest number of planets on average, that could mean billions of rogue planets in the Milky Way. The team used a number of guesstimates to arrive at 50 billion.

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized planet along for the ride.