A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

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

Astronomers believe the free-floating planet is around 22 percent the mass of Jupiter and lies 3,000 parsecs from the Milky ...

New satellite records capture how polar ice sheets slide toward the sea, helping scientists better understand ice loss and ...

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

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

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

Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet drifting alone through the Milky Way, detected briefly by bent starlight, ...

Free Planet #8 hits stores Wednesday! Elite space marine Niketas brings explosive action as the Orouran Empire expands into ...

What Happened? Shares of earth imaging satellite company Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) jumped 12.1% in the afternoon session after ...

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