NASA confirms alien planet count hits 6,000, and the strangest worlds are still ahead

NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 exoplanets. This milestone highlights the diversity of planetary systems.

Why does Pluto have such a weird orbit?

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots white dwarf consuming Pluto-like feature

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

A New Hope for Life? Webb Telescope Reveals First Clues From Potentially Habitable World

TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

NASA's Hubble Captures Carnage Of A White Dwarf Devouring A Pluto-Sized Object

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

NASA Records More Than 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...
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Astronomers’ Exoplanet Haul Tops 6,000 Alien Worlds

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

Panspermia: the theory that life was sent to Earth by aliens

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

Where are all the 'hot Neptune' exoplanets? Orbital chaos may have booted them out

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon ...
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NASA estimates we have 6,000 planets outside our solar system

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

NASA Mission to Map Sun’s Protective Bubble Could Help Better Predict Dangerous Space Weather

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...