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Gas giants—the species of planets to which our solar system neighbors Jupiter and Saturn belong—are truly fascinating. The largest of them, in fact, often evade easy categorization, as their size ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...

A giant cloud of vaporized metal may be hiding a secret planet or second alien sun in a nearby star system, a new study reveals. The mysterious cloud is up to 15,000 times wider than our planet, and ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...