Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

This is important context for understanding both star and planet formation.” JWST located the rogue planets in the young nebula NGC 1333. This star-forming cluster is located about a thousand ...

One option is something called a rogue planet, which is exactly what you probably think it is. It's a planet that isn't tied to the gravity of a star, and is effectively "floating free" across space.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Eighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken ... They said they found a planet-rich region -- near a star in the constellation Orion -- where stars, brown dwarfs and ...

Alternatively, the first object could be a closer "rogue planet" with no parent star and a mass around 4 times that of Jupiter. That would have made the second lensing body a moon associated with ...