Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...

In the cold dark of interstellar space, a rogue planet is defying expectations by growing at a staggering rate. Recent observations from the European Southern Observatory‘s Very Large Telescope (VLT) ...

A young world drifting alone through space is putting on one of the most violent growth spurts astronomers have ever seen, gulping down roughly six billion tons of gas and dust every second. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new observations, recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, were made at the European Southern Observatory (ESO ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything witnessed before in a free-floating planet. The rogue planet, ...

WASHINGTON - Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all by themselves, called rogue planets. While their origins are ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system. The free-floating planet is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of ...