Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

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Observations of exoplanets typically provide astronomers little more than an orbit, a mass and a radius. If the radius and ...

Space is full of surprises but few are as unique as the so-called "cotton candy planets." These young, giant exoplanets have an incredibly low density and are quite light and airy in weight that is ...

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By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

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SEE ALSO: Researchers may have found an interstellar comet in our solar system Jacobs was sifting through data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope in his spare time and came across an unusual ...

Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...