For the first time ever, scientists have captured incredible images of an alien star system being born. The image shows the very earliest moments of planet formation, when hot minerals are just ...

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Gas giants—the species of planets to which our solar system neighbors Jupiter and Saturn belong—are truly fascinating. The largest of them, in fact, often evade easy categorization, as their size ...

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Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...