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In the vast expanse of our universe, certain celestial bodies defy conventional classification. This challenges our understanding of planetary and stellar formation. One such enigmatic object is SIMP ...

Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today's weather report, which is coming at you from a strange, extrasolar world, instead of a standard TV studio. That is thanks to ...

What can the atmosphere of a free-floating exoplanet teach astronomers about exoplanet formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

Not every large object in space forms part of a solar system. There are some big objects that exist in isolation in space, without either being a star or orbiting one. One of these, SIMP 0136, wanders ...