Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

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Astronomers have directly observed a free-floating planet, comparable in mass to Earth, roaming the Milky Way. Discovered via ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

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Astronomers have weighed a lonely planet drifting through the Milky Way, using a rare cosmic alignment. How this exiled world ...

Using observations from both ground-based telescopes and space instruments, they were able to measure the planet's size and ...

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