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

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

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

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

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

Saturn, or Shani, is called the planet of karma. Often, Saturn teaches us lessons and tells us to learn from our errors.

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a ...

Saturn, or Shani, is called the planet of karma. Often, Saturn teaches us lessons and tells us to learn from our errors.

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

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

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

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...