Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 09:31
in Astronomy & Space
A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. So argues an international team of scientists led by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham, UK. Their findings are published online in the Springer journal Astrophysics and Space Science.