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Controversial 'JuMBO' planet pairs spotted by James Webb telescope may be capable of supporting life without a star

Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...
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Astronomers just discovered more than 100 new worlds hiding inside NASA’s TESS data — including 31 brand-new planets and extreme worlds that whip around their …

Some planets orbit so close to their stars that a single “year” lasts less than a day on Earth. A few of those worlds just ...

NASA Finds a “Goldilocks” Giant Planet Wrapped in Methane

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a rare alien world that sits in a cosmic “sweet spot” between scorching hot Jupiters and frozen gas giants like Saturn.
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10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has been searching for exoplanets since its launch in 2018, and it turns out it may have found plenty more of them than we had thought ...
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Astronomers just confirmed 118 new planets beyond our solar system in a single sweep — with 2,000 more strong candidates still waiting to be checked

In a single analytical sweep of data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a team led by astronomer Marina ...

Scientists discover 27 potential new planets that orbit two stars in solar systems far, far away

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Could Pluto Once Again Be Considered a Planet? New Remarks From NASA’s Administrator Highlight an Enduring Debate Among Scientists

Two decades ago, the International Astronomical Union—which defines and names celestial bodies—redefined the criteria for being a planet, putting Pluto into the new category of dwarf planet ...
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Scientists May Have Discovered 27 Star Wars-Like Planets With Two Suns

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Dozens of Star Wars Tatooine-like planets discovered in new space survey

A new satellite survey has found nearly 30 unusual planets orbiting two stars instead of one, similar to Tatooine, the fictional home of Star Wars protagonist Luke Skywalker. Such circumbinary planets ...
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10,000 new planets? Researchers find hidden worlds in NASA telescope data

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Space just got a lot more crowded: scientists said they’ve uncovered about 10,000 new exoplanet candidates hidden in NASA data. A new research paper published this month in the ...