Astronomers have caught a free‑floating “rogue planet” in the act of bulking up at a rate that defies intuition, swallowing ...

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 ...

Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...