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Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...