When we think of planets, we imagine steady worlds orbiting stars. But astronomers have just caught a free-floating planet in the act of a cosmic binge, devouring matter at the fastest rate ever seen ...

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 strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today's weather report, which is coming at you from a strange, extrasolar world, instead of a standard TV studio. That is thanks to ...

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 ...