Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

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Abandoned on an alien planet after your mission to colonize space is deemed too costly by Alta Interglobal, your now former employer, you’ll head out to explore strange new lands, scavenge what ...

Artistic image of the newly-discovered planet HD 20794 d orbiting its star, HD 20794. Two other planets in the same system are visible, HD 20794 b and HD 20794 c. Credit: Gabriel Pérez (IAC) ...

A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system. By examining separate layers of the planet’s atmosphere in 3D, the ...

Credit: NASA / ESA, J. Olmsted For the first time, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet’s atmosphere, revealing a complex system of layered gases and extreme winds. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake ...

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The planet orbits its star at about 2.5 per cent of the distance of Earth to the sun. It is about a third closer to its star than our solar system's innermost planet Mercury is to the sun - so ...