article_snippet.sent: Several years ago, an international team of astronomers discovered a large planet floating freely through space with no star to orbit.
article_snippet.sent: Planets traditionally travel in a uniform, singular direction, around a star.
article_snippet.sent: However, the free-floating planet, named PSO J318.5-22, was found without a host.
article_snippet.sent: a host movement isn't structured, and scientists do not understand how Its movement formed and scientists are baffled by what - if anything - controls Its movement.
article_snippet.sent: We have never before seen an object free-floating in space that that looks like this. '
article_snippet.sent: this has all the characteristics of young planets found around other stars, but this is drifting out there all alone,' explained Dr Michael Liu of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. '
article_snippet.sent: The scientists named The scientists discovery a 'Steppenwolf' planet because The scientists claimed any life found there would 'exist like a lone wolf wandering the galactic steppe'.
article_snippet.sent: However The scientists refused to speculate on what life forms would be discovered, but agreed that The scientists would me microscopic in size.
article_snippet.sent: Brown dwarfs, for example, are substellar objects that are not massive enough to sustain fusion, but are still more than 13 times the mass of Jupiter.