Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes these lone ...

A team of scientists managed to spot an entire population of freely-floating, Earth-sized exoplanets that are sailing through space rather than orbiting a star. By spotting the tiny fluctuations in a ...

About 620 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon, a strange planet is devouring everything around it at a furious pace. Cha 1107-7626, a “rogue” planet because it doesn’t orbit a star, has ...

We show that the coolest known object that is probably formed in a star-like mode is a free-floating planet. We discovered recently that the free-floating planetary mass object OTS,44 (M9.5, ~12 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Floating Star Play as a lone space traveler, floating in the galaxy while exploring the boundaries of human civilization. With Elio out in theaters, we look ...

Simon Blouin receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. University of Victoria provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. University of ...

I will never go to space, but sitting in a gently rocking kayak enveloped in darkness so deep I can only feel the world ...