While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...
Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
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Giant planet found 690x farther out than Earth is from the Sun
Astronomers have identified a giant planet circling a tiny red dwarf star at a distance so extreme that it sits about 690 ...
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New planetary formation models from Carnegie’s Alan Boss indicate that there may be an undiscovered population of gas giant planets orbiting around Sun-like stars at distances similar to those of ...
The average distance between the Earth and Sun measured using trigonometry is 93 million miles, not 3,000 miles as claimed in a viral post online. The author of the post claims that measuring with a ...
The planet may have formed from material transferred between the stars. We live in interesting times, when we can not only detect planets in other star systems, but also have some understanding on how ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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