The galaxy is expected to be home to billions of free-floating, or "rogue", planets that have no stellar companion. These ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...

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

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...

I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...

The distance to one of the Milky Way's next-door neighbors, a satellite galaxy that orbits its outskirts, has been determined more accurately than ever before, astronomers announced today (March 6).

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...