Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...
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How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...
Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...
The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...
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Astronomers Caught Four Planets in a Rare Baby Phase That May Explain the Most Common Worlds in The Galaxy
Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...
Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...
It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...
Jupiter reaches opposition, making it brighter and larger than at any other time this year. A rare transit of its moon ...
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Experts are finally getting a look at how the universe builds its most common planets
A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.
New research tracks young planets around a nearby star, showing how large, gas-rich worlds shrink over time to become the most common planets in the galaxy ...
Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty of reasons to ...
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