A Giant ‘Planet Factory’ Beyond Jupiter May Have Churned out the Building Blocks of the Solar System

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...
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New type of planet discovered 35 light-years from Earth is a molten world like no other

The planets of the Solar System are not representative of all the types of planets that exist elsewhere in the galaxy. There are worlds like hot Jupiters, gigantic and very hot, as well as ocean ...
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Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The ...
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The most common type of planet in the galaxy may not look anything like Earth on the inside

The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than ...
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AI approach uncovers dozens of hidden planets in NASA’s TESS data

This is an artist's impression of a unique type of exoplanet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet is so close it to its star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. The planet is ...