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Astronomers capture the birth of planets around baby sun outside our solar system
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...
Alien planets that really exist
Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...
Here's how a star beyond Earth's sun could offer a 'picture of the baby solar system'
International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.
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Bad news for alien life? Earth-size planets may be less common than we thought
"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...
A star is dissolving its baby planet
Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through ...
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Strange 'Fossil' World Detected at Fringes of Solar System
Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...
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Astronomers discover a cosmic 'fossil' at the edge of our solar system. Is this bad news for 'Planet 9'?
"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...
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This star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like ours
A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.