Do you often feel that things—whether in your personal life or in world affairs—aren’t going well? You might be experiencing “free-floating anxiety,” a term that describes an ongoing sense of dread, ...

Scientists have used gravitational lensing to detect a so-called 'rogue planet' that doesn't orbit a star and floats freely in space. The planet is relatively small, but researchers can't tell for ...

Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS at ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

An international team of researchers has confirmed that a possible microlensing event witnessed in 2011 was due to the presence of a free-floating black hole roaming through interstellar space—the ...

Back in 2018, researchers from Brigham Young University demonstrated a device called an Optical Trap Display that used lasers to create free-floating holographic images that don’t need a display. That ...

Rogue planets don’t play by the rules. These free floaters roam the universe on their own without being bound to a host star. Astronomers know very little about these rebellious worlds, but a recent ...

Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes these lone ...

The reality is that free-floating anxiety is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Here are explanations of free-floating anxiety from various members of the psychological community: The American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Telescopes helped researchers track the planet. Britta Pedersen/dpa A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely ...

Do you often feel that things—whether in your personal life or in world affairs—aren’t going that well? Do the “Sunday scaries” hit you hard, even if you enjoy your job? Perhaps you feel nervous after ...