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Planets are major bodies which orbit stars. They are not massive enough to ignite nuclear reactions at their cores like stars, yet they are massive enough in some cases to support gaseous atmospheres and complex chemistry. Since antiquity, five planets...

A planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its...

More than fifteen years ago, I discovered the work of Alma Luz Villanueva on the shelf of a used bookstore. A slim chapbook, Mother, May I?, published by an obscure small press (Motherroot Publications, 1978), caught my eye because it was written by...

AMONG THE MORE tantalizing discoveries in modern astronomy has been the identification of planets circling other stars, a phenomenon long assumed to exist but not confirmed by observation until the past decade. Now more than 50 such stars are known to have at least...

Scientists taking their first "sniffs of air" from planets outside our solar system are a bit baffled by what they didn't find: water.One of the more basic assumptions of astronomy is that the two distant, hot gaseous planets they examined must contain water in their...

A new planet was discovered orbiting a sun-like star 41 light years away, making it the first known planetary quintet outside our solar system, astronomers said Tuesday.The newfound planet joins four others circling the nearby star 55 Cancri in the constellation Cancer. Although it resides...