Radio Telescope Confirms Free-Floating Binary Planets in the Orion Nebula

Planets orbit stars. That’s axiomatic. Or at least it was until astronomers started finding rogue planets, also called free-floating planets (FFPs). Some of these planets were torn from their stars’ gravitational grip and now drift through the cosmos, untethered to any star. Others formed in isolation. Now, astronomers have discovered that some FFPs can orbit …