Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

Gravity can bend light around a planet, allowing us to see that light even though something in between is blocking our direct line-of-sight. In this case, the mysterious rogue planet acted as the ...

A couple of decades ago, the idea of a rogue planet entering our solar system would have been the stuff of fantasy, but now we know it’s actually possible. In a recent paper, ...

This illustration shows a rogue planet drifting through the galaxy alone. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt [Caltech-IPAC]) 95 'COOL WORLDS' DISCOVERED IN MILKY WAY NEAR THE SUN.

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

The rogue planet, called CFBDSIR2149, is around 100 light years from our solar system, making it the closest free-floating planetary mass yet discovered. Its relative proximity, ...

Like Kepler-10 b, illustrated above, the exoplanet HD 63433 d is a small, rocky planet in a tight orbit of its star. HD 63433 d is the smallest confirmed exoplanet younger than 500 million years ...

At 12.7 Jupiter masses, this rogue planet is just shy of the limit at which deuterium nuclei have sufficient density and heat to fuse into helium, which begins at approximately 13 Jupiter masses.

The sun could collect rogue planets and hold them at the outskirts of the solar system for millions of years, occasionally trading them with neighboring star Alpha Centauri. News.