Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the atmosphere of a cosmic body that is either a "failed ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Traveling unpredictably through the cosmos, the mass is thought to be either a rogue planet or a "failed star," also known as ...

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

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.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together through the ...

Rogue planet find makes astronomers ponder theory. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Eighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken all the rules about being born from a central, controlli ...

A detailed investigation of an isolated planetary-mass object has been conducted using the James Webb Space Telescope , revealing critical atmospheric insights. Located approximat ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...