Finding a planet is one thing; proving it is a planet when it has no star is the part that usually breaks the story. A newly ...
Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based telescopes ...
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 ...