In the latest discovery made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astrophysicists detected six wandering ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered half a dozen rogue planets, one of which apparently hosts a newly forming ...

Instead of orbiting a star, as most planets do, these rogue worlds are untethered and appear to be floating alone. Each one is between five and 10 times the size of Jupiter. The size of the ...

Six rogue planets that have been spotted floating in the abyss of space may help reveal the secrets of how these cosmic phenomena are born. These six rogue planets, which are between five and 10 ...

Researchers using the James Webb Telescope have discovered six distant “rogue” worlds that may have ... telescope reveal a handful of peculiar planets. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A.

Rogue planets, or free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs), are planet-sized objects that either formed in interstellar space or were part of a planetary system before gravitational ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered six "rogue planets" careening through space without a star. The objects are believed to have formed directly from gas collapse, blurring the lines ...

What he saw gave him chills. You can see three of these rogue planets below, circled in green. They're located about 1,000 light-years away in our galaxy, inhabiting the nebula NGC1333 ...

On Episode 126 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Rosalba Perna about errant planets. As if election season wasn't scary enough, now we have rogue planets to worry about!

In the latest discovery made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astrophysicists detected six wandering rogue planets unbound from the gravitational influence of any star.

In an added twist, one of the rogue planets is encircled by a disk of gas and dust that is forming moons or, perhaps, "mini-planets." It's not the first time that JWST has discovered free-floating ...