A new paper from Harvard's sometimes controversial physicist Avi Loeb has suggested that if we want to find advanced alien ...

A couple of decades ago, the idea of a rogue planet entering our solar system would have been the stuff of fantasy, but now we know it’s actually possible. In a recent paper, ...

Rogue planet reports are out there in the publications, here is a recent example. Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet, https: ...

A rogue planet is a world that has been ejected from the planetary system in which it originally formed. Because rogue planets do not orbit a parent star, they are cast adrift into interstellar space.

Pictured are a NASA artist's concept of a Jupiter-like rogue planet and a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope's spectroscopic survey of the nebula NGC1333 (inset).

Even if a rogue planet came close to the Earth, the interaction may not even destroy the planet if there wasn't a direct hit. "It would need to come close enough to Earth to either collide with it ...

The rogue planet, called CFBDSIR2149, is around 100 light years from our solar system, making it the closest free-floating planetary mass yet discovered. Its relative proximity, ...

Conspiracy theorists are claiming that a rogue planet named Nibiru will disrupt earth’s orbit this Sunday and bring about a series of catastrophic earthquakes that could bring forth the apocalypse.

Astronomers have spotted the smallest "rogue planet" candidate yet known, a Mars- to Earth-mass world that apparently cruises through our Milky Way galaxy unattached to a star.

The rogue planet recently discovered by Mroz’s team signaled its existence for just a few hours. The tricky part is figuring out whether rogue planets are, in fact, rogue.

Two new studies, both set to publish in a future edition of The Astronomical Journal, point to the discovery of only the second known Earth-mass rogue planet and present evidence suggesting that ...

Gravity can bend light around a planet, allowing us to see that light even though something in between is blocking our direct line-of-sight. In this case, the mysterious rogue planet acted as the ...