JWST Reveals a “Forbidden” Planet With a Baffling Composition

Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science A strange giant ...
Reuters

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our ...
University of California

Scientific definition of a planet says it must orbit our sun. A new proposal would change that

The International Astronomical Union defines a planet as a celestial body that orbits the sun, is massive enough that gravity has forced it into a spherical shape, and has cleared away other objects ...
Space.com

Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Science Daily

Rocky planet discovered in outer orbit challenges planet formation theory

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...
CNN

Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up

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