Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

The growth spurt hints that the free-floating object evolves like a star, providing clues about rogue planets’ mysterious origins.

ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all by themselves, called rogue planets.

A free-floating planet has been seen devouring astonishing amounts of matter, hinting that stars and planets are more alike than we thought ...

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...

A young alien planet, wandering alone in the galaxy, has surprised astronomers by gobbling up gas and dust at a rate faster than they've ever seen before. Throughout the Milky Way, there are ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

A "rogue planet" is growing at a record-breaking rate of six billion tons per second, reveals new research. Located around 620 light-years away from Earth, scientists say it has experienced a ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...