NASA is preparing for the demolition of three iconic structures at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

Scientists have weighed a rogue planet, the size of Saturn, floating alone in space. This planet has no sun and no orbit. Its ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, one that doesn't orbit a star, by measuring ...

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.

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of planet wandering through the Milky Way without a host star. Roughly the mass of ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...