Distant planets orbit their stars every 10 hours
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Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets outside the solar system that hug their parent stars so tightly they take less than a day to complete an orbit.
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Washington - A new class of planets has been found orbiting stars besides our sun, in a possible giant leap forward in the search for Earth-like planets that might harbour life.
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Astronomers in Europe and the United States have found two new planets about 20 times the size of Earth beyond the solar system. The discovery might be a giant leap forward in
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Early-morning risers this week will be treated to a wonderful display of planetary motion, as Venus and Jupiter cross each other&#39;s path in the eastern sky before dawn.
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A new class of planets has been found orbiting stars besides our sun, in a possible giant leap forward in the search for Earth-like planets that might harbor life, scientists said on Tuesday.
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New infrared observations of the disks of dust and rock around young stars reveal that many planets apparently form in an environment more violent and chaotic over a longer period of
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Itâs that time of year on the distant planet â when its ring system appears edge-on to observers on Earth.
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A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery, scientists say.
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Planet-seekers who have spotted 28 new planets orbiting other stars in the past year say Earth's solar system is far from unique and there could be billions of habitable planets.
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A nearby star thought to harbor comets and asteroids now appears to be home to planets, too. The presumed worlds are smaller than Jupiter and could be as tiny as Pluto, new observations suggest.
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A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery, scientists said on Tuesday.
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MAUNA KEA, Hawaii -- The sharpest image ever taken of a dust disk around another star has revealed structures in the disk which are signs of unseen planets.     Dr...
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Most of the time, Pluto is the planet (or dwarf planet) farthest from the sun. But every 248 years its eccentric orbit carries it inside the orbit of Neptune and they switch positions for a while.
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A UK-led sky survey known as SuperWasp discovers two new planets orbiting far-distant stars.
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The collisions that spawn planets are bigger and take place over longer periods of time than previously thought, say astronomers who studied nearly 300 stars with NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Astronomers have discovered four new planets in a week's time, an exciting end-of-summer flurry that signals a sharper era in the hunt for new worlds.
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Advances in planet-hunting technology lead to the discovery of more planets -- plus seven brown dwarfs -- outside our solar system.