A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully achieved the first direct mass measurement of a free-floating object, confirming that it is a planet with a mass comparable to that of Saturn. This key ...

YALE / BROWN (US) — A scientist’s breakfast sparked new research into how floating objects—like pieces of cereal and tiny colloidal particles—form patterns. Andong He, a postdoctoral student at Yale ...

A few months ago, The New York Times sent a photographer to South Korea to photograph the world’s largest floating object. It took him hundreds of shots to capture the behemoth. Now, its makers are ...

The US Government has shot down several strange objects floating in US airspace in recent weeks. While the initial buzz linked the objects to stereotypical UFOs and extraterrestrials, we now know at ...

Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie. Reading time 3 minutes Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake ...

NPR's Asma Khalid talks to David Gompert, a longtime presidential adviser, about the unidentified objects that have been floating in the sky. U.S. jets shot down three of them in the past three days.

A hexagon-shaped plastic structure was used to generate waves that merged to form complex patterns on the water surface in a tank for an experiment co-led by Nanyang Technological University, ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, about the classified briefing on the floating objects that have been shot down.