Deep in the older, denser reaches of the Milky Way, there is a red dwarf star that shouldn’t exist — or at least, its family of planets shouldn’t look the way it does. The star is LHS 1903, and it ...
Astronomers have discovered a strange giant planet that seems to break the usual rules of how planets form. Known as TOI-5205 b, this world has been nicknamed a “forbidden planet” because it orbits a ...
Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift alone through the Milky Way. Astronomers call these objects free-floating ...
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