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Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy Something is wrong with Earth. Billions of years ago, a process unlike any other began here. It has completely reshaped the Earth’s…
Artist’s depiction of a star system showing the host star, transiting planets, and misaligned protoplanetary disksNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/R. Hart, K. Miller (California Institute of Technology/IPAC)…
Artist’s impression of Barnard’s b, a planet orbiting around Barnard’s starESO/M.Kornmesser Barnard’s Star, one of the sun’s closest neighbors, appears to have at least one planet…
Artist’s impressions of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 systemNASA One of the most promising systems for searching for life, the search for aliens to communicate…
Star cluster NGC 1333 contains many brown dwarfsNASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS Astronomers have discovered six new worlds that look like planets but formed like stars. These so-called “rogue worlds”…
Exoplanets that get too close to their parent stars are exposed to harsh environmentsNazarii_Neshcherenskyi/Shutterstock The distant Earth-sized planet orbits so close to its parent star that…
Pluto is a dwarf planetNASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute While a mathematical formula for determining whether a space object should be classified as…