Astronomers puzzled by ‘planet that shouldn’t exist’
Credit: Julian Baum The search for planets outside our solar system—exoplanets—is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate that on average there is at least one planet per star in our galaxy. Many current research efforts aim
Luz Redner
July 4, 2023