Discovered just two years ago, a weird new young planet – dubbed PSO J318.5-22 – has puzzled astrophysicists ever since they found it. They knew fairly early on that it’s not orbiting a star. It’s a free-floating planet that’s only eighty light years away from Earth (a comparatively short distance in universal terms) and has a … Continue reading Newly-Discovered Planet Is More Nightmarish Than Anyone Ever Dreamed Possible