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 ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In fact, these ...

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Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and in orbit, astronomers have discovered at least 70 ...

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 ...

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A unique Jupiter-like planet, “floating in space on its own” without a sun or star, was initially detected by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope atop Haleakala. “We have never before seen an object ...

Astronomers have directly observed a free-floating planet, comparable in mass to Earth, roaming the Milky Way. Discovered via gravitational microlensing due to its brief light curve, this rogue world ...

Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a free-floating planet for the first time. Learn more about it. Roaming the ...