Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

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 new study published in The Astronomical Journal has revealed an astonishing possibility: free-floating planets, long considered cosmic castaways, may not be as solitary as once thought. Using the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a runaway feeding frenzy in a rogue planet drifting freely through space, devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second. Located 620 light-years away in the ...