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

Researchers have revealed a new type of planetary object called a 'synestia'. Synestia's are massive, spinning, donut-shaped masses of hot, vaporized rock formed as planet-sized objects smash into ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body using the world’s most powerful telescopes. It was found to be ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

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

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. A groundbreaking study published ...

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

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

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered fresh insights into free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs), strange celestial bodies wandering through space without a host star. Using advanced simulations, ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...