A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...
Scientists have long debated whether most of Earth's vital liquid was delivered via icy comets or was homemade ...
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Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the ...
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...
Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...
The candidate planet, known as HD 137010 b, orbits a sun-like star and is estimated to be slightly larger than Earth ...
The researchers discovered the candidate world while examining data gathered by the NASA Kepler space telescope in 2017. It ...
Astronomers have identified a new planet that's bigger than Jupiter — the largest in our solar system — yet they say it's as fluffy and light as fairy floss. The exoplanet named WASP-193b has ...
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...