Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no star of its own roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth. Instead of circling ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a ...

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

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

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

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Astronomers recently made an important discovery when they found a rare "in-sync" solar system with six planets all moving in one big grand harmony, completely untouched by outside ...

An artist's impression of the shiny exoplanet and its sun. Scientists say exoplanet LTT9779 b's metal clouds make it the shiniest planet spotted outside our solar system.Ricardo Ramírez Reyes ...

Gaia data reveals signs of planets forming around young stars by measuring stellar motion, identifying planetary, brown dwarf, and stellar companions in early star systems ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a ...