(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 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, which ...

Astronomers have caught a free‑floating “rogue planet” in the act of bulking up at a rate that defies intuition, swallowing ...

Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its ...

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 ...

Peking University, January 2, 2026: A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our ...

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around them. But we’ve also discovered a handful ...