How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...
Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...
Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...
On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...
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Super-low density worlds reveal how common planetary systems form
Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...
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Saturn-size rogue planet found 10,000 light-years away
Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a ...
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A lone "rogue" planet finally gets its weight and distance nailed down
Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through ...
A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...
Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...
NASA’s IXPE has become the first observatory to measure a white dwarf star. It used its X-Ray polarization to reveal the ...
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