Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was potentially a brown dwarf —a cosmic body with the makings of a star that ...

In fact, Nasa is tracking hundreds of asteroids set to swing close to Earth ... It would instantly end all life on Earth. There's also a chance that a non-rogue planet could hit Earth too.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Eighteen rogue planets that ... a rethink about how planets form, astronomers said Thursday. They said they found a planet-rich region -- near a star in the constellation ...

Discovered in 2003, SIMP 0136 rotates so rapidly that a day on this rogue world lasts just around 2.4 Earth hours. There is a possibility that SIMP 0136 isn't a planet at all but is an object ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have generated the first-ever weather report of a rogue exoplanet-like ... "[I]t's not a planet in the traditional sense — since it ...

Only a close examination of the ... making a single SIMP 0136 day only 2.4 hours on Earth. This led astronomers to believe SIMP 0136 was a rogue planet, or a planet that floats freely through ...

it could be a rogue planet speeding around the cosmos, or possibly a failed star, called a brown dwarf. An instrument on Webb called the Near-Infrared Spectrograph collects light from distant ...

Astronomers should search for technosignatures on planets that are not conducive to life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...