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NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter may have spotted its 1st rogue planet

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) may have discovered its first free-floating, or “orphaned,” planet. That’s a planet roaming the cosmos without a star, all alone. The potential discovery demonstrates that TESS can use a phenomenon first suggested by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago to spot these so-called rogue planets. Despite the fact that […]

The mystery of how strange cosmic objects called ‘JuMBOs’ went rogue

At the end of 2023, astronomers made a startling discovery in the Orion Nebula. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team found 40 pairs of planetary mass objects — none of which orbit a star. They’re called Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs. In short, this discovery directly challenged both star birth and planet […]