Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...
Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...
NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...
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Strange discovery offers 'missing link' in planet formation: 'This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems'
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.
The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their atmospheres, ...
How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation
Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...
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Some objects we thought were planets may actually be tiny black holes from the dawn of time
Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...
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