New research conducted by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets, or worlds that drift through space untethered to a star, significantly outnumber planets that orbit stars. The results indicate that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled for launch
Orphan Worlds Planets without a star, known as rogue planets, may vastly outnumber star-orbiting worlds in the Milky Way, according to a pair of studies set to be published in The Astronomical Journal. Sans a sun, these rogues waywardly drift through the cosmos without end, and may number in the trillions. "We estimate that our […]
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New research by scientists from NASA and Japan s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets - worlds that drift through space untethered to a star - far outnumber planets that orbit stars. The res