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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...

  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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...