Polygon has rounded up the best icy sci-fi planets from our favorite video games, movies, television, and books ...

The planet HD 189733 b was discovered in 2005, as one of many huge gas worlds snuggled tightly against their suns. It gradually gained popularity for .

James Webb finds a hot planet that is tidally locked with its parent star, is coated with a thick atmosphere of volatile chemicals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

what if a planet did not need a star at all? This is the provocative question at the heart of an emerging astronomical debate, wherein the discovery of rogue planets-worlds free-floating in the galaxy ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

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