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Scientists find planet orbiting sun-like star remarkably similar to Earth — but there's one problem
A unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b is its ice-cold temperature.
Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.
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Scientists finally have explanation for the missing planets of tight binary stars
Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...
‘Star Wars’ predicted it: Planet discovered that orbits two suns like Luke Skywalker’s home Tatooine
Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...
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Planet-eating stars hint at Earth's ultimate fate
This article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as ...
Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...
As of 2025, astronomers have identified at least 14 stars within 10 light-years of the Sun. After the Alpha Centauri system, the next closest is Barnard’s Star, a solo red dwarf roughly 6 light-years ...
A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...
The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant exoplanets and their host stars.
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