Coverage of the discovery notes that Astronomers have detected a newly discovered rogue planet navigating alone through the Milky Way, approximately 10,000 light-years away, and that gravitational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new observations, recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, were made at the European Southern Observatory (ESO ...

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 ...

The formation of planets is a fascinating process. They usually originate in a disc of dust and gas surrounding stars. When particles come together, they form a clump, and through a process called ...

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How fast can rogue planets grow? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the discovery of a rogue planet that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AFP/Getty) Scientists have spotted a “rogue” planet floating on its own through space. Most of the planets we know are found ...