Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

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and they typically have small, rocky planets orbiting them, rather than gas giant planets. “The planet-forming disk around the low-mass star LHS 3154 is not expected to have enough solid mass to ...

Scott Simon talks to author Frances Moore Lappe, who wrote Diet For a Small Planet 30 years ago. She is joined by her daughter Anna Lappe, with whom she has written a sequel to that book called ...

The presence of a planet aroundthe foreground star causes light from the distant star to become momentarilybrighter. Astronomershailed the discovery as the first of a new class of small ...

Before “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “The Moosewood Cookbook,” before Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, before Clover and Life Alive and Veggie Galaxy, there was “Diet for a Small ...

For about a decade, he and other researchers have been trying to prove that the so-called "Planet 9" exists. So far, the only evidence has come from some oddities in the orbits of small Pluto-like ...

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporised by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of ...