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A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering insight into the diversity of planets beyond our solar system.

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

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A trio of newly discovered exoplanets is defying the expectation that binary systems are hostile to planet formation, according to an international team of researchers.

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Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

Scientists have been searching for radio signals from hypothetical alien civilizations using radio telescopes for decades.