While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

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

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

NASA’s Hubble has examined Cloud-9, a strange object with no stars that offers clues about early galaxy formation and dark ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

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