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.

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified rogue planets in the Perseus molecular cloud, about 960 light-years away. These ...

JUMBOs: The mysterious rogue planets The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently identified over 500 rogue planets, known as JUMBOs (Jupiter-mass binary objects), drifting through the Orion Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered six "rogue planets" careening through space without a star. The objects are ...

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 ...

Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University led researchers in discovering six rogue worlds that may have formed similar to how ...

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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 ...

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 ...