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Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

A potential record-breaking exoplanet system, traveling at 1.2M mph, may be the first of its kind ever identified.

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

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Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

With this answer comes more of an idea about where planets are likely to form in our galaxy. They have found that stars with high-mass planets have higher metallicity than those with lower amounts ...