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Citizen scientists find remarkable exoplanet, name it after Harry Potter character
Space via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoA blue orb under a glowing yellow circle againsy a black background. Citizen scientists searching...
Newly discovered 'mini-Neptune' may have an ocean or an atmosphere - but not for long
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoa planet orbits close to its star, causing its atmosphere to dissolve away A newly discovered...
Metal clouds turn scorching hot exoplanet into the universe's largest mirror
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn illustration of the exoplanet LTT9779b as it orbits its star Astronomers have discovered the most...
What's the largest planet in the universe?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoHuge, red "super-Jupiter" exoplanet orbits its star. Since astronomers first looked beyond the solar system three decades ago to discover extrasolar...
James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor around alien planet. But where did it come from?
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoa grayish planet with a red star in the background We could be on the verge of a major breakthrough...
Some planets 'death spiral' into their stars and scientists may now know why
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWASP-12b is a planet on a date with a fiery destiny, doomed to plunge into its sun-like star....
Space mysteries: Does the sun move in the solar system?
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAn illustration of the solar system showing the orbits of the planets around the sun. From an early...
Solar Orbiter catches Mercury crossing the sun. Here's the amazing video.
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMercury crossing in front of the sun's disk as seen by the Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet...
Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA newly discovered planet that should be too big to have formed around a tiny star is throwing into...
Strange radio signals detected from Earth-like planet could be a magnetic field necessary for life
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEarth's magnetic field protects life on our blue planet — and astronomers just found evidence of a...