For ages, our quest for extraterrestrial life has been anchored to planets and moons, searching for the right conditions to sustain life as we know it. But what if life doesn’t actually need a planetary home? Recent research suggests that ...

Astronomers came recently across enough evidence that a mysterious population of “free-floating” planets may exist. As intriguing as that might sound, these planets are just some cosmic bodies, alone in deep space, without any star companion. The data is offered ...