Located approximately 20 light-years from Earth in the ... They may have formed independently in the cold depths of space. The study of SIMP J0136 has sparked a renewed effort to identify more ...

One of these, SIMP 0136, wanders aimlessly in the Milky Way, about 20 light years away from Earth. It has a mass about 13 times that of Jupiter, and is thought to have the structure and chemical ...

The cosmic orphan, or "free-floating planetary-mass object," designated SIMP 0136 drifts through the universe around 20 light-years from Earth — and it does so without a stellar anchor.