This artist’s animation shows Cha 1107-7626. Located about 620 light-years away, this rogue planet is about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star. The planet is eating up ...
Remember when your child was a baby and you swore they grew overnight? Or that summer when your toddler suddenly looked more like a kid than a baby? You're not imagining it: Growth is seldom steady ...
A rogue planet some 600 light-years away has been going through a growth spurt, gobbling up gas and dust at a rate of 6 billion metric tons per second, researchers report in the Oct. 10 Astrophysical ...