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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...
Complete 7-planet alignment coming late February 2025 | Where to look and when
Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...
Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away
The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
Dusting for a young star's magnetic fingerprint illuminates planet formation
For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...
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This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: Bright Planets and Stars
See Venus, Jupiter, and more in the evening sky this week. Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher explains where and when to look.
When To See And Stream The Best ‘Planet Parade’ Since 1985 And Until 2036
Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...
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Newly discovered super-Earth orbits in and out of its star's habitable zone. Could life survive its extreme climate?
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.
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Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions?
While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.