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Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a dramatic planetary breakup.

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Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's everything to know about it.

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Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.