If water worlds exist, what do they really look like?
Hycean planets, or water worlds, are one of the most intriguing types of planets — if they turn out to ...
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Exoplanets rich in Hydrogen and Helium could be habitable for billions of years
The universe just got a lot more interesting.
Scientists find a potentially habitable planet orbiting a dying star
There's still a long way to go to check it, but it's an exciting development
Mars is also a wobbly planet like Earth, and we don’t know why
Maybe this discovery can help us understand them both.
Water could be a natural byproduct of rocky planets forming — so it could be almost everywhere
This would be very helpful.
This could be the first extragalactic planet we’ve ever found
Status report: astronomers may have found a planet outside our galaxy, something that has never been done before.
“π Earth”: Astronomers discover Earth-sized planet that takes 3.14 days to orbit its star
Like clockwork, the planet moves around its star in Pi days.
The hottest planet in the solar system — and why it’s probably not what you think
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest of them all?
Jovian planets — the giants of solar systems
They're big
What are dwarf planets?
Not everyone is happy with their current definition.
Researchers may have spotted the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system
Small but significant.
The different types of planets barreling through space
Yes, Pluto is here too.
Hubble snaps breathtaking new image of Jupiter
Looks tasty, honestly.
Planetary fragments orbiting dead star hints at what Earth’s final days might look like
The surviving fragments of planet orbiting a white dwarf have been found by a team of astronomers.
Mercury is the planet closest to Earth — contrary to popular belief
There's also a whirly-dirly corollary associated with this new method.
It Is Possible Jupiter Could Support Life, Scientists Say
The chances of it happening are pretty slim though.
Pluto is a planet after all, say planetary scientists
Good news for Pluto fans!
The Earth is flat out spherical — here’s why, and why we’re sure
The only thing flat earthers fear is sphere itself!
Scientists spot traces of titanium in scorching hot planet’s atmosphere
The planet is almost as hot as the Sun.a
Astronomers capture first images of an exoplanet forming
All babies are adorable, right?
These NASA researchers think Pluto is planet, but our definitions are ‘bullshit’ — so they want to change them
I've never given up on you, Pluto.
Scientists find diamonds forged deep within a lost, ancient planet of the early solar system
Pieces of an ancient planet formed long before Earth shed their secrets.
Meet TESS — the new exoplanets detective
NASA's future planet hunter has arrived -- and it's set for glory.
In the Pisces constellation, one star is busy devouring its own planetary offspring
Giving "family dinner" a whole new meaning.
Physicists propose new, donut-shaped planetary body: the synestia
Homer Simpson would have been impressed. D'oh!
Scientists find water clouds and exotic, primitive atmosphere on a “warm Neptune”
We didn't even know this kind of planet can exist.
Researchers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet
Can we get excited yet? Mmm no, not really.
Proposed ‘geophysical definition’ re-instates Pluto as a planet — and adds 100 new ones in the Solar System
I never lost faith in you, Pluto.
Rubies and sapphires rain down on huge planet
Still a hellish planet, but a beautiful hellish planet at that.
This might be the most accurate map of the world
It looks strange, but it's really accurate.
Scientists find new dwarf planet in our solar system
Astronomers have found a cosmic friend for Pluto.
If there’s anything that marks humanity’s brief time on Earth, it’s plastic
Before WWII, there weren't that many plastics around. Today, we use so much that we could literally plaster the planet ...
We have a ninth planet in the solar system – and it’s not Pluto
A duo of astronomers from CalTech may have found another planet, far away in our solar system.
New most distant body in the Solar system identified
A new dwarf planet, designated V774104 has been identified and now takes the crown of most distant object in our ...
What makes a planet? Finally a simple formula that includes exoplanets as well
There is only one clear set of official criteria by which we class or not a cosmic body as a ...
Welcome back to the family, Pluto!
Before you get overly excited, no, Pluto hasn't been once again accepted as a planet - it's still officially a ...
Five ancient alien planets discovered in 11 billion-year-old solar system
The ever resourceful Kepler missions just reported its most interesting find to date: not one, but five planets smaller than ...
Not one, but two yet to be confirmed Earth-sized planets could orbit in the outer solar system
Nibiru followers might have cause to rejoice, as Spanish astronomers report a novel hypothesis that suggests two Earth-sized planets might ...
Newly found gassy exoplanet has mass similar to Earth’s
Artist impression of KOI-314c. Credit: C. Pulliam & D. Aguilar (CfA) A team of astronomers recently discovered a new exoplanet ...
Astronomers discover planet that shouldn’t be there
The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance baffled researchers. So far, ...
A strange, lonely planet found without a star
An international discovered a young, exotic, rogue planet - PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has ...
Earth-sized lava world found in Alpha Centaury – closest find yet
The search for other planets gets more and more exciting and fruitful, and now, researchers have found an exoplanet which ...
New satellite gets INSANELY high-resolution picture of Earth
Less than a month ago, on the 28th of October, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) ...
Dwarf planet Eris, which led to Pluto’s demise as a planet, may bring back it’s status
Eris is a dwarf planet, observed in 2005 for the first time, whose discovery led to Pluto losing its planet ...
The Kepler mission: searching for planets in the Goldilocks area
The Goldilocks area is one of the most interesting for astronomers throughout the known Universe, as it has great hope ...
Puma replaces shoe box with reusable bags
I had some serious thought on whether to write this or not. It's not a paid post or anything, and ...
Water and fog found on Titan, Saturn’s moon
As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it's the ...
Three ‘Super-Earths’ Found Orbiting One Star
It's not a bird, it's not a planet, it's not Jupiter... it's super earth. Actually, there's 3 of them. What ...
Easier (but still not easy) way to other habitable planets
The hunt is on for finding other planets we can live on; this is probably the next step for ...
Terrestrial Planets might form around stars similar to the Sun
What seemed to be a very natural and obvious conclusion needed a whole lot of studies and research to be ...
