Astronomers have spotted a lonely world roughly the size and mass of Saturn, drifting through the Milky Way without a star to ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

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 ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

Jupiter, as always, is a dazzling object, shining among the stars of Gemini the Twins. It reaches opposition on Jan. 10; this ...

UP, AND THEN YOU WANT TO GO OUTSIDE. BECAUSE WHEN IT GETS DARK, YOU CAN SEE A PARADE OF PLANETS IN THE NIGHT SKY. METEOROLOGIST DYLAN HUDLER JOINS US NOW. DYLAN, TELL US ABOUT THIS CELESTIAL EVENT.

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...