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

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy without a parent star, turning a once purely theoretical class of worlds into a ...

However, a free-floating (or “rogue”) planet offers none of that. It drifts through a galaxy without an obvious host star, cold and dark enough to blend into the background. For years, researchers ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets seem to have been knocked out of their orbits, floating through space free ...