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The planets orbit a so-called M dwarf star, which is about 10 times smaller than the sun. A planetary system with two Earthlike planets has been discovered only 33 light-years away from us. This exciting solar system is one of the nearest to Earth and...

  Feeling blue: The difference between Uranus and Neptune’s colors is hazy Now we might know why Neptune is a deeper blue in the face than Uranus. It comes down to a deep atmospheric layer that is full of haze. Neptune tends to recycle methane...

You’ll need binoculars to see the Mercury-Mars conjunction from the Northern Hemisphere. It’ll be better from the Southern Hemisphere. This chart shows the conjunction as seen from Montevideo, Uruguay, on August 19, 2021. Read more. Star chart showing moon moving past Jupiter and Saturn in...

Planets which are tilted on their axis, like Earth, are more capable of evolving complex life. This finding will help scientists refine the search for more advanced life on exoplanets. This NASA-funded research is presented at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference. Since the first discovery of...

Four newly discovered planets could help scientists learn more about how the Earth and our solar system developed during their ‘teenage’ years. The exoplanets reside around 130 light years away and orbit two known stars, TOI 2076 and TOI 1807, which can be found in...

Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of “free-floating” planets, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. The results include four new discoveries that are consistent with planets of similar masses to Earth, published today in Monthly...

An exciting discovery by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2017 revealed seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby star TRAPPIST-1, less than 40 light-years away. Details about these planets have been hard to come by, but astronomers have wondered, are any like Earth? Are some like...

Planets orbiting in their stars’ Goldilocks zones or habitable zones are not too close and not too far from their stars. They’re in a place where water might exist as a liquid on a rocky planet. We tend to think of a planet in the...

Intense radiation could strip away the ozone layer of Earth-like planets around other stars and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study led by Dr. Eike Guenther of the Thueringer Observatory in Germany. Dr. Guenther sets out the work in a presentation on 3rd...

WHETHER or not you believe in life beyond Earth, there are actually a  minimum of 100 billion planets in our universe, according to a Nasa study. But how many planets make up our solar system? How many planets are there in our solar system? There...