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While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

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 have identified a rare type of planet wandering through the Milky Way without a host star. Roughly the mass of ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Astronomers have detected a rogue planet, not orbiting any star, flying through space. The planet's mass and distance were calculated using gravitational microlensing.

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

Astronomers have detected a newly discovered rogue planet navigating alone through the Milky Way, signifying the first time ...

By combining observations from Earth and the Gaia Space Telescope, astronomers weighed a lonely world wandering the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have weighed a lonely planet drifting through the Milky Way, using a rare cosmic alignment. How this exiled world ...

A new study published in Science marks the first time astronomers have directly measured the mass of a rogue planet, a ...