Astronomers Discover a Rogue Planet the Size of Saturn Drifting Through Our Galaxy ...

A young world drifting alone through space is putting on one of the most violent growth spurts astronomers have ever seen, gulping down roughly six billion tons of gas and dust every second. The ...

Rogue planets may have more in common with stars like our sun than astronomers realized. About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AFP/Getty) Scientists have spotted a “rogue” planet floating on its own through space. Most of the planets we know are found ...

Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything witnessed before in a free-floating planet. The rogue planet, which ...

How fast can rogue planets grow? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the discovery of a rogue planet that ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

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 ...

The formation of planets is a fascinating process. They usually originate in a disc of dust and gas surrounding stars. When particles come together, they form a clump, and through a process called ...

WASHINGTON - 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. While their origins are ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope. This rare dual perspective allowed them to weigh the planet and pinpoint ...