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A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...
Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits ...
Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain life.
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...
A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...
The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...
Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. By Katherine Kornei If our species manages to hang ...