Scientists using a powerful telescope in Chile have found an alien planet circling a star that is nearly identical to the sun and located in a star cluster 2,500 light-years from Earth. The discovery ...

An international team of astronomers have found that there are far more planets of the hot Jupiter type than expected in a cluster of stars called Messier 67. This surprising result was obtained using ...

GARCHING, Germany, June 17 (UPI) --A team of astronomers have discovered a surprisingly large concentration of hot Jupiters inside the star cluster Messier 67. Hot Jupiters are exoplanets roughly the ...

(CNN) — It’s rare for astronomers to spot a planet in a star cluster. That’s partly why a cluster called Messier 67 is so special: We now know that it has three planets orbiting stars. Even more ...

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