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At just over 4 light-years away, Proxima Centauri is home to an exoplanet that tantalizes astronomers with its potential.

New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming show that once the first planets form close to the central star, these planets can help shepherd the material to form ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Discover the fascinating feature of WASP-69 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet with a comet-like tail of gas, shedding light on ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a ...

An object up to dozens of times the mass of Jupiter flying through our solar system may have disrupted planetary orbits.

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