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Each new planet, even if uninhabitable, helps us better understand the vast diversity of worlds beyond our solar system and brings us closer to uncovering Earth-like planets.
If you thought planets only circled stars in neat, flat disks, think again. Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence for ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.
Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets, or planets outside of ...
2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ...
Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope has given an international team of astronomers fresh insight into ...
“[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system is not standard in its spacings,” says astronomer Juliette Becker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In particular, the rocky planets ...
2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in System ...
Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging ...