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'Weird' debris discs may help scientists find hidden planets in far-off solar systems

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

How big can a planet be? With very large gas giants, it can be hard to tell

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Say That Jupiter—the Solar System’s Largest Planet—Might Be Slightly Smaller Than Previously Thought

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...
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Is There Actually A Ninth Planet In Our Solar System? Here's What We Know

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital art of distant planet - Dottedhippo/Getty Images On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by ...
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Planets will fill the February sky, and there's a moon-mission launch you can watch inside

Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually ...
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Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system

The discovery provides a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system as well The discovery provides a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system as well The discovery provides a ...

Why only a small number of planets are suitable for life

For life to develop on a planet, certain chemical elements are needed in sufficient quantities. Phosphorus and nitrogen are ...
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Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...