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

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

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

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 ...

Traveling unpredictably through the cosmos, the mass is thought to be either a rogue planet or a "failed star," also known as a brown dwarf. Only a close examination of the body's atmosphere will ...

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.