However, what constitutes a planet in particular is a question that may seem very simple but has been escalating in complexity as scientists discover new planets that defy the classical definition.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626. (CREDIT: ESO) Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much ...

This video reacts to the Kurzgesagt episode about aliens under the ice and the possibility of life on rogue planets drifting through space. It explains how frozen worlds hidden oceans and internal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AFP/Getty) Scientists have spotted a “rogue” planet floating on its own through space. Most of the planets we know are found ...

About 620 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon, a strange planet is devouring everything around it at a furious pace. Cha 1107-7626, a “rogue” planet because it doesn’t orbit a star, has ...

Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent ...

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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 ...

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 ...