Stars and planets are linked together, and dust is the key to understanding how

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
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Astronomers weigh a rogue planet drifting through the galaxy

A lonely world the size of Saturn is drifting through the Milky Way with no star to warm it, and for the first time ...
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Astronomers surprised to find planet 'too massive for its star'

WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Our Milky Way galaxy's most common type of star is called a red dwarf - much smaller and less luminous than our sun. These stars - or so it was thought - simply are not ...
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For the 1st time, astronomers weigh a planet with no star

For the first time, astronomers have managed to weigh a planet that is not bound to any star, a lonely world drifting through ...