Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

The growth spurt hints that the free-floating object evolves like a star, providing clues about rogue planets’ mysterious origins.

ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

Can an object somewhat behave like both a planet and a star, especially when it is forming? Turns out, the answer is yes! Astronomers have reported a mysterious “rogue planet” gobbling 6 million tons ...

A free-floating planet has been seen devouring astonishing amounts of matter, hinting that stars and planets are more alike than we thought ...

A new astronomical study suggests that Earth could one day be ejected from the solar system, not by the aging of the Sun, but by the unpredictable trajectory of a rogue star. While such a scenario ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...