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Uranus - the strangest planet in our solar system

Uranus looks calm from a distance, but it is one of the strangest planets ever discovered. With a sideways rotation, broken ...
Astronomers have discovered two of the fluffiest planets ever found. These giant worlds are so light and airy that they are ...
Pink Planet GJ504b orbits a Sun-like star 57 lightyears from Earth ...
Two newly confirmed "super-puff" planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter. Their rare orbital relationship and enormous, lightweight ...
A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...
Astronomers have captured some of the most detailed images of debris discs—rings of leftover dust, gas, and rocks that circle a star—from fully formed, "teenage" planetary systems. And those images, ...