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Planetary Science

Rare, free-floating exoplanet found

This artist's impression shows the solitary exoplanet PSO J318.5-22, which sits 80 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Capricornus.

V. Ch. Quetz/MPIA 

By Ashley Yeager

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