A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about its mass and direction. Scientists have known about this and other rogue ...

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

Do you often feel that things—whether in your personal life or in world affairs—aren’t going well? You might be experiencing “free-floating anxiety,” a term that describes an ongoing sense of dread, ...

Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough to collapse under their own gravity, but they never become dense and hot ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

The reality is that free-floating anxiety is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Here are explanations of free-floating anxiety from various members of the psychological community: The American ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

Europa's outer ice shell is not where it used to be, but instead may be free floating across the moon. Reading time 3 minutes On September 29, 2022, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University of Padua, trained a spyglass of his own creation on the sky, he was overwhelmed ...

With a calm, collected demeanor, Solomon Johnson has a presence that lets you know he’s ready for the next challenge. When we meet at a cafe in Berkeley, California, Johnson is readying to open a ...

Do you often feel that things—whether in your personal life or in world affairs—aren’t going that well? Do the “Sunday scaries” hit you hard, even if you enjoy your job? Perhaps you feel nervous after ...