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Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

and it is done in an elliptical manner rather than circular. Due to its size, planet HD 20794d is labelled as a super-Earth. Whilst it is not big enough to be as massive as Jupiter or Saturn ...

Unlike most planets, HD 20794 d’s orbit around its star is 'elliptical' – elongated ... of all the planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone have been found. The majority of exoplanets are gaseous, like ...