Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything ...

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 ...

Not every planet has a sun. Scattered across the Milky Way are worlds that belong to no star at all, drifting through interstellar space in permanent darkness. Astronomers call them rogue planets, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This rogue planet likely formed within a traditional planetary system before gravitational interactions—perhaps with a massive ...

Artist’s illustration of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626, which astronomers have spotted eating up gas and dust at a record rate of 6 billion tons a second. Image via ESO/ L. Calçada/ M. Kornmesser.

How fast can rogue planets grow? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the discovery of a rogue planet that ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets seem to have been knocked out of their orbits, floating through space free ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Six rogue planets that have been spotted floating in the abyss of space ...

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The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...