Coconuts-2b is a rarity among exoplanet discoveries: a relatively cool, massive gas giant, orbiting its star at a great distance. The closest directly imaged exoplanet to Earth to date – at a distance of just 35...
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17 year-old NASA intern Wolf Cukier was on the third day of his internship at NASA helping out at the space agency in the United States. When he discovered a new planet previously unknown to scientists. So just three days in...
Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. Astronomers had long predicted that there would be a ninth planet in the Solar System, which they called Planet X. The...