Finding a planet is one thing; proving it is a planet when it has no star is the part that usually breaks the story. A newly ...
Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...
Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no ...
While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...
A screenshot of James’s animation “Planets and dwarf planets to scale in size, rotation speed & axial tilt in distance order from Sun”. Credit must be given to the creator. Only noncommercial uses of ...