Researchers at OIST built a graphite disk that levitates and spins for hours in a vacuum, showing how perfect magnetic ...

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

Rogue planets live by their own rules, freely floating through the cosmos without being bound to a star. With no stellar ...

Scientific sorcery? Japan achieves near-frictionless levitation on macroscopic rotor A research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), on Friday, announced that it had ...

Astronomers have uncovered a runaway feeding frenzy in a rogue planet drifting freely through space, devouring six billion ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that ...

Located about 620 light-years away, this rogue planet is about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star.

European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, with additional data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all ...

Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead ... It is eating up material from a disc around it and, using ESO’s Very Large Telescope ...

Cha 1107-7626 is estimated to be about one to two million years old — extremely young by astronomical standards.