There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...
Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...
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More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...
Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass ...
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Drifting alone through space, about 20 light-years away, is a world that refuses to fit in. SIMP 0136 isn’t a star because it ...