Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non ...

Planets travel alone in space, without a parent star. These wandering worlds, far from being rare, might even be extremely ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Astronomers have found a planet wandering alone in space. This rogue planet, similar in size to Saturn, offers a rare glimpse ...

Scientists have been baffled by a bizarre lemon–shaped planet that 'defies explanation'. The Jupiter–size planet was discovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and is so strange that it ...

In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider ...

It’s often said—we said it again ourselves just last week, in fact—that our own Solar System isn’t as typical as scientists once imagined. We’ve got four small, close-in, rocky planets (Mercury ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet that is showered with so much radiation, its atmosphere eroded away long ago, leaving it bare. Life as we know it can't exist on this blistering world, ...

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