Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say
Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the ...
Fast-forming alien planet has astronomers intrigued
Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding ...
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Planet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found
They can move inwards over time, as is thought to have taken place in our solar system when some of the giant planets jostled for position. “It hints at fast migration of planets being a thing ...
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Scientists discover a baby exoplanet ‘just’ 3 million years old
An artist's depiction of the system showing the host star, transiting planet, misaligned transition disk, and wide binary companion (in the background ... outside our solar system, called ...
A distant planet seems to have a sulfur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...