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In the largest sample yet of rogue exoplanets discovered yet, additional seventy sightings of seventy free-floating planets—that is, worlds without a parent star (see previously) and orphaned from a solar system—have been confirmed. Such untethered planets could number in the teeming billions in interstellar space. Given a thick enough atmosphere and geologic activity, such sunless places could still be warm and support life as we understand it. More on the observation and research at Universe Today at the link up top.