Rogue planet

“A Jupiter-like rogue planet wandering alone in the dark of space. There could be 50 billion such rogue planets adrift in the Milky Way, floating freely without a parent star.”

Asteroids, rogue planets, black holes, and incineration by the sun are just a few ways life on Earth could meet its ultimate demise.

Researchers say a region known as the Galactic bulge may be home to a Neptune-sized planet, while the galaxy’s disk may host a planet with a similar mass to Earth’s.

Scientists using the Kepler telescope have found a new population of rogue planets, or free-floating planets, unconnected to any star.

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This is according to Sean Raymond, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Laboratory in Bordeaux, who says the internal heat of the planets may allow life to form.

A rare, rogue exoplanet without a parent star drifts through space just 80 light-years from Earth, astronomers say. The object may be the lowest-mass

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