Adolescents have growth spurts that can leave them unrecognizable in a year, but ever heard of a planet with this experience? A team of astronomers has witnessed it and published the insights in The ...

(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, ...

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 ...

A "rogue planet" is growing at a record-breaking rate of six billion tons per second, reveals new research. Located around 620 light-years away from Earth, scientists say it has experienced a ...

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 discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. Since then, observers have spotted hundreds rogue ...

Rogue planets live by their own rules, freely floating through the cosmos without being bound to a star. With no stellar supervision, those isolated planetary bodies can often behave in unusual ways.

Astronomers observed a rogue planet devouring gas and dust at six billion tonnes per second, the fastest growth ever recorded for any planet. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have identified an enormous ...