And now, astronomers from the OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) project have discovered the smallest rogue planet ever spotted. Most rogue planets discovered so far have been several ...

According to scientists, there's another interesting possibility: Planet 9 might not be from our solar system at all. Instead, it might represent what is sometimes called a "rogue" planet ...

Related: NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter may have spotted its 1st rogue planet "A normal planetary system, like our solar system, is comprised of multiple planets orbiting a single star. On the other ...

This artist’s impression shows an example of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex visible in the background. Rogue planets have masses comparable to those of the planets in our ...

This is important context for understanding both star and planet formation.” JWST located the rogue planets in the young nebula NGC 1333. This star-forming cluster is located about a thousand ...

What happens when a planet goes rogue? Scientists suspect that billions of free-floating or "rogue" planets may exist in the Milky Way, but so far only a handful of candidates have turned up among ...

"Definitely a ten out of ten excitement from me. The potential of discovering something like a rogue world drifting in the darkness of interstellar space is just incredible." NASA's Transiting ...

It's possible for our solar system to capture a rogue planet and give it a home as it hurtles through the galaxy, according to a new study. In 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory were ...

Astronomers have spotted a "rogue planet" - wandering the cosmos without a star to orbit - 100 light-years away. Recent finds of such planets have suggested that they may be common, but candidates ...

If a wandering planet passes close to a habitable rocky planet within a solar system, the outer layer of the rogue planet might be torn apart by gravitational disturbances, and the resulting ...

The free-floating planet mass function does the same for rogue planets wandering the galaxy. The study is published on the arXiv preprint server. The authors suggest that—among other things ...