Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through space without the warmth or light of a parent star. The object, a Saturn-sized ...

Astronomers have identified a giant planet circling a tiny red dwarf star at a distance so extreme that it sits about 690 times farther from its star than Earth is from the Sun. The discovery pushes ...

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New planetary formation models from Carnegie’s Alan Boss indicate that there may be an undiscovered population of gas giant planets orbiting around Sun-like stars at distances similar to those of ...

The average distance between the Earth and Sun measured using trigonometry is 93 million miles, not 3,000 miles as claimed in a viral post online. The author of the post claims that measuring with a ...