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Explore the groundbreaking discovery of free-floating binary planets in the Orion Nebula, challenging traditional notions of planetary formation.

Starless Wonders After the James Webb Space Telescope discovered dozens of rogue Jupiter-sized objects with no stars to orbit, a team of Mexican scientists decided to check out what kind of signals these bizarre bodies were emitting — and were stumped by what they found. It all started last fall, when a duo of astronomers […]

According to them, these objects are too light to have formed alone and are unexpectedly numerous.

Free-floating Jupiter-sized "planets" found in space and orbiting only each other have baffled astronomers, forcing them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.

A November story from Quanta Magazine that was published in Wired today considered the nascent attempts to explain so-called Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JUMBOs) — gas giant pairs, free-floating and orbiting only each other — littering the Orion nebula. According to the article, they’re too light to have formed alone and are unexpectedly numerous. One possibility is planets with “tightly-spaced orbits” being dragged out of their solar system by a passing star.