For skywatchers, 2026 kicks off with a great chance to view Jupiter at its biggest and brightest, according to NASA’s latest ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

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

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a dramatic planetary breakup.

Astronomers have spotted a lonely world roughly the size and mass of Saturn, drifting through the Milky Way without a star to ...

Quite far beyond the Milky Way is a lone planet that astronomers found new information about. For the first time, scientists ...

Simultaneous ground- and space-based observations of a newly discovered free-floating planet have enabled direct measurement of its mass and distance from Earth, according to a new study. The findings ...

As the New Year 2026 launches, only two bright planets, Saturn and Jupiter, are visible in the entire night sky.

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

A Saturn-mass planet wandering through space without a host star has been discovered through simultaneous observations by ...