New research by scientists from NASA and Japan's Osaka University suggests that rogue planets--worlds that drift through space untethered to a star--far outnumber planets that orbit stars. The results imply that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch by May 2027, could find a staggering 400 Earth-mass rogue worlds. Indeed, this new study has already identified one such candidate.
New research by scientists from NASA and Japan's Osaka University suggests that rogue planets--worlds that drift through space untethered to a star--far outnumber planets that orbit stars. The results imply that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch by May 2027, could find a staggering 400 Earth-mass rogue worlds. Indeed, this new study has already identified one such candidate.
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