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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
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 ...
Astronomers Orbiting TRAPPIST-1 Star Could Be Peering Back At Earth
A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...
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White dwarfs pause their cooling, giving planets a second chance for habitability
When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...
How A Balloon-Borne Antarctic Telescope Could Help Detect An Earth 2.0
An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...
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Charon: Pluto's dwarf planet partner
Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon ... have produced the debris that formed the system's four small moons: Nix, Styx, Kerberos and Hydra.
Dwarf planet Ceres may have received organic material from space objects
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...