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New Evidence Of Another Planet Was Uncovered, And It Could Be Around The Same Size As Earth

For almost a decade, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in the solar system. Recently, new evidence of ...
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NASA’s TESS mission spots Earth-size exoplanet

NASA’s planet-hunting TESS mission has found its first Earth-size exoplanet in a star system only 53 light-years from Earth. Another exoplanet, a warm mini-Neptune, was found in the same system. “It’s ...
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Fastest-growing planet ever seen is expanding at a rate that's difficult to comprehend

Rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 is swallowing gas and dust at roughly six billion tons each second, the fastest planetary growth ...
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‘Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring Around Star for First Time Nearly 437 Light-Years from Earth

The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope – Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...

Scientists have found a rogue planet that acts like a star, gobbles up surroundings. Here's what we know

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...