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In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the ...

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Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

It was kind of like seeing a pregnant octogenarian in a nursing home.” That is what astronomers employed to explain the ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.

Inner planets are the four planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are collectively characterized by a solid surface and small size relative to the outer gas giants.

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In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...