The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...
Astronomers have found new evidence that a mysterious ninth planet may be hiding at the edge of the solar system - rewriting what we know about the cosmos again. An international team from Taiwan, ...
A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...
Six planets are about to stack up in the evening sky in a rare alignment that will briefly turn the western horizon into a live solar system diagram. For a short window after sunset, Mercury, Venus, ...
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Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.