A young world drifting alone through space is putting on one of the most violent growth spurts astronomers have ever seen, gulping down roughly six billion tons of gas and dust every second. The ...

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through ...

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

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...

Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system. The free-floating planet is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of ...

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

A "rogue planet" is growing at a record-breaking rate of six billion tons per second, reveals new research. Located around 620 light-years away from Earth, scientists say it has experienced a ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

WASHINGTON - Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all by themselves, called rogue planets. While their origins are ...