Astronomers have spotted a lonely world roughly the size and mass of Saturn, drifting through the Milky Way without a star to ...
Across the Milky Way and beyond, planetary systems appear to fall into a few recurring blueprints, and recent exoplanet ...
Ground and space-based telescopes have confirmed a microlensing event caused by a rogue planet wandering silently through the ...
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 ...
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In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...