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A University of Arizona-led research team has found bands and stripes on the brown dwarf closest to Earth, hinting at the processes churning the brown dwarf’s atmosphere from within. Brown...

An atmosphere is what makes life on Earth’s surface possible, regulating our climate and sheltering us from damaging cosmic rays. But although telescopes have counted a growing number of rocky...

Astronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The research, published this month in The Astrophysical Journal,...

A newly discovered exoplanet the size of Earth has one very peculiar characteristic — it orbits its star every 3.14 Earth days. The research, published in The Astronomical Journal, notes...

An author called David Meade is convinced that in September ‘death planet’ Nibiru is going to kill us all. David, who wrote Planet X: The 2017 Arrival , believes the apocalypse will...

THE planet, which takes just 18 hours to travel round its star, is believed to have a surface covered by graphite and diamond instead of water and granite A «SUPER-Earth»...

The planet, dubbed TOI 700 d, was discovered by NASA’s TESS satellite, and is one of only a few Earth-sized planets discovered in a star’s habitable zone so far NASA...

  A SLICE of celluloid science fiction is now reality after astronomers revealed they have spotted a planet orbiting two suns. The discovery was made by Nasa’s planet-hunting telescope Kepler. Scientists who describe...

The plant, dubbed ‘WD 1856 b’ is located a whopping 80 light years away. Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a distant dying dwarf star. The planet, dubbed ‘WD 1856 b’...

IT COULD be ten times the size of Earth and take 20,000 years to get round the sun. Watch the video about the possible extra planet in the Milky Way....