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Artist’s impression of a BEASTie. The image shows a gas giant planet (like Jupiter) on a distant orbit around a blue, massive star. The planet is likely to have been captured or stolen from another star. The background stars are members of the same star-forming region and could be the star the BEASTie was born around.

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Weird, enormous planets may be stolen from stars in 'planetary heists'

Strange planets nicknamed BEASTies are unlikely to have formed around their current stars. They may have been stolen from other stars or captured from deep space

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Exoplanet

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First exoplanet picture from James Webb Space Telescope revealed

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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Illustration of the exoplanet LHS 3844 b

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JWST could soon tell us what exoplanets' surfaces are made of

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Rogue planet

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Rogue planets with weird atmospheres and no star could host life

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KRB4DP This is an artist's impression of the view from the vicinity of a hypothetical terrestrial planet and moon orbiting the red dwarf star AU Microscopii. The relatively newborn 12 million year-old star is surrounded by a very dusty disk of debris from the collision of comets, asteroids, and planetissimals swirling around the young star. Though no planets have been discovered around the star, the disk is strong circumstantial evidence for planets. Not only is it dusty, but also it is warped, possibly by the pull of one or more planets. In this view the glow of starlight reflecting off the disk cre

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Mysterious cold blobs may be hiding inside a distant star

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HRJM18 Exoplanet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb

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One in every 50 planets may have been stolen from other stars

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Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable

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Aliens could say hello by arranging planets in prime number pattern

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TESS spacecraft in front of Earth and the moon TESS will look at the nearest, brightest stars to find planetary candidates that scientists will observe for years to come. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center As the search for life on distant planets heats up, NASA?s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is bringing this hunt closer to home. Launching in 2017-2018, TESS will identify planets orbiting the brightest stars just outside our solar system using what?s known as the transit method. When a planet passes in front of, or transits, its parent star, it blocks some of the star's light. TESS searches for these telltale dips in brightness, which can reveal the planet's presence and provide additional information about it.

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Search starlight to help astronomers discover new exoplanets

Comb through observations from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to help find new planets, says Layal Liverpool

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Exocomets are probably born the same way as comets in our solar system

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Exoplanet sighting shows how gas giants can form far from their stars

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Astronomers still can't agree on what counts as a planet

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First hints of a planet orbiting in a white dwarf’s habitable zone

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