Massive Planet News Today

Astronomers have discovered a planet 13 times as massive as Earth orbiting a star nine times less massive than the sun, a disparity in size that shouldn’t exist and challenges planet formation models.

A newly discovered planet that should be too big to have formed around a tiny star is throwing into question what researchers know about planet formation.

A new study has shown that gas giants in distant planetary systems can destroy life in Earth. This means that Jupiter is a black sheep as far as gas giants go since it protects life on Earth.

 E-Mail IMAGE: This illustration imagines what the distant object nicknamed "Farfarout " might look like in the outer reaches of our Solar System. The most distant object yet discovered in our Solar System,... view more  Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSFs NOIRLab, and other ground-based telescopes, astronomers have confirmed that a faint object discovered in 2018 and nicknamed "Farfarout" is indeed the most di...