Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...
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Why don't planets fall into the stars they orbit?
Why don't planets fall into the stars they orbit if they're constantly being pulled by gravity?Lindsey CoughterRocky Mount, North Carolina This is a brilliant question because the notion of an orbit ...
A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.
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How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...
In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and planetary masses silently orbit their stars — sometimes thousands of astronomical ...
Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...
In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...
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