Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

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Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a dramatic planetary breakup.

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Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

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