Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing hundreds of millions of stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way’s center.

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Building on eight years of extraordinary discoveries by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS and SDSS-II), a new program of four coordinated surveys will revolutionize the study of the distant universe, ...

Now, according to new research published in Science, astronomers have managed to weigh a rogue planet for the first time. The ...

(CNN) — Scientists may have detected signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way, in what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy. The possible exoplanet ...

Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and in orbit, astronomers have discovered at least 70 ...

June's full moon, nicknamed the strawberry moon, will shine brightly on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The moon will be at its fullest at 3:44 a.m. ET Wednesday but will still appear bright and ...