Now, according to new research published in Science, astronomers have managed to weigh a rogue planet for the first time. The ...

Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...

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

Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569.

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

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

Scientists measure a Saturn-sized rogue planet drifting through the Milky Way using rare Earth and space observations, revealing how planets can be ejected from their original systems.

The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Named Y1, the galaxy is bustling with a speedy star formation system unlike any other observed before.

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...