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Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet

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The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only…

Article15 hours ago
Artist's concept shows a full disk of imagined planet Vulcan, predominantly light brown with patches of gray-green, against the black background of space.

Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’

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The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet,…

Article6 months ago
Distant photo of Earth from space

Is Earth an Oddball?

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One of the strangest things in the cosmos might be – us. Among the thousands of planets confirmed to be…

Article5 years ago
David Latham, a senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, with the HARPS-N spectrograph, which measures the masses of exoplanets.

The Planet Hunter and the ‘Unseen Giant’

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It was March 1988, and astronomer David Latham was working into the night, puzzling over an odd result from an…

Article5 years ago

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An animation shows the Sun in the bottom left corner. Cascading off the Sun are lines in every direction, representing solar wind streams. As they move away, kinks form in the lines, and grow wider as they move outward.