Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

A large proportion of the most common type of planet in the galaxy could be situated in the habitable "Goldilocks Zone" of their solar system, research has found. Astronomers from the University of ...

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Look up at the night sky and you’ll see stars, sure. But you’re also seeing planets — billions and billions of them. At least. That’s the conclusion of a new study by astronomers at the California ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates that are orbiting a variety of distant stars. In accomplishing this, Hubble looked farther into our Milky Way galaxy ...

Planets that go rogue orbit no star. They wander the vacuum of space alone, having been kicked out of their star systems by gravitational interactions with other planets and stars. Nobody really knows ...

Our galaxy is filled with potentially habitable planets -- at least 300 million of them, according to NASA. The US space agency's Kepler Space Telescope spent nine years on a planet-hunting mission, ...