Scientists found a mysterious rogue planet roaming aimlessly outside our solar system. What if it came closer?

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

Microlensing Observations The primary method for detecting rogue planets is gravitational microlensing. This happens when a rogue planet passes in front of a distant star, temporarily bending and ...

A new study has looked into the possibility that our Solar System could capture and provide a home for a rogue planet as they hurtle through the galaxy, alone. In 2017, astronomers at the Pan ...

A Rogue Planet with Backwards Rings? Liu simulated how a giant planet and its ring system might form and evolve around a star like V1400 Centauri, which is about the mass of our Sun but a few ...

Check out the announcement trailer for Coromon: Rogue Planet, a new spin-off creature-collecting turn-based roguelite developed by TRAGsoft. Players will choose a starting Coromon, upgrade gear ...

NASA's Webb telescope spots 6 rogue planets: What it says about star, planet formation The group of cosmic bodies are slightly bigger than Jupiter and have no star to orbit. Astrophysicists ...

Pictured are a NASA artist's concept of a Jupiter-like rogue planet and a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope's spectroscopic survey of the nebula NGC1333 (inset).

While rogue worlds are rare in our home Milky Way galaxy, the new JWST data indicates that they show they account for about 10 percent of celestial bodies in a recently observed targeted star ...

A rogue planet is a world that has been ejected from the planetary system in which it originally formed. Because rogue planets do not orbit a parent star, they are cast adrift into interstellar ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) made its first ever startling discovery of a free-floating rogue planet, and NASA says it is hunting for more. While TESS will continue to be ...

Starless Rogue Planet As Heavy As 10 Earths Found By NASA Telescope It takes a chance alignment with a distant star to spot these worlds.