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New 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet has a weird orbit and another planet may be to blame
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoa gaseous planet orbits close to a nearby star, causing some of its gases to be burned off into...
New 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet discovered by NASA's planet-hunting satellite
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThings could be heating up for a newly discovered warm Jupiter planet. The exoplanet planet around...
'Unraveling new worlds:' European astronomers find clouds made of sand on distant exoplanet
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA giant gas planet located 200 million lightyears away had already caught the attention of...
2023 was a landmark year for exoplanet discoveries, including many that could harbor alien life
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoExoplanet WASP-17 b NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Up until the mid 1990s, astronomers didn't...
A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThis artist's illustration shows what exoplanet WASP 107b could look like based on new data from...
Blue blobs turn out to be orphan star clusters made of gas cast-off from galaxies
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAstronomers have discovered a new kind of star system: Elongated and clumpy clusters of young, hot,...
Earth-size planet discovered around cool red dwarf star shares its name with a biscuit
Space via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAstronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second...
Astronomers make unprecedented discovery in search for water in space
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAstronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a landmark discovery of water vapor in the...
'Crucial milestone': Sand clouds and water vapour detected in exoplanet's atmosphere
Euronews via Yahoo News· 7 months agoEuropean astronomers have found water vapour, sulphur dioxide, and sand clouds in the atmosphere of...
This comet's weird orbit stumped astronomers for years. Now there's an answer for 'Oumuamua's...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe strange outer-space object 'Oumuamua flew through our solar system in 2017 and captured our...