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Astronomers have discovered that a "rogue" planet is going through a massive growth spurt and it's eating everything around ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

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When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...