rogue planet
TESS Finds its First Rogue Planet
Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS,…
7 months ago
What’s the Source of Binary Rogue Planets?
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is already making great strides in helping us to unravel the mysteries of the…
11 months ago
Hundreds of Free-Floating Planets Found in the Orion Nebula
It appears that rogue planets – free floating worlds that aren’t gravitationally bound to a parent star – might be…
1 year ago
There Could be Trillions of Rogue Planets Wandering the Milky Way
A pair of new studies set to be published in The Astronomical Journal examine new discoveries in the field of…
1 year ago
Massive Planet Gone Rogue Discovered
A massive rogue planet has been discovered in the Beta Pictoris moving group.
9 years ago