We have known for a while that the Milky Way is full of homeless worlds. Rogue planets, free-floating planets—call them what you like—but they are planets formed in orderly systems around ordinary stars and then thrown out, either by a gravitational shove from a sibling planet or by a star that ...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-moon-planet-stolen.html)

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