An international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

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New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

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Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

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An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter ...

Whatever the origin story, TOI-6894b is leading the ranks of other known gas giants orbiting small and faint stars that astronomers want to study. Scientists also have their eyes on LHS 3154 b, GJ ...

TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

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