planetary system

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"When we detect water -- or even its faint ultraviolet echo, OH -- from an interstellar comet, we're reading a note from another planetary system," said Dennis Bodewits, professor of physics at Auburn.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

For a hot Jupiter to have formed through high-eccentricity migration, this circularization time must be shorter than the age of its planetary system.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density "super-puff" planets has at least one more planet, according to new research led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

But that doesn’t mean scientists aren't making do with what they have, while revealing how truly weird this planetary system is.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2024

Or perhaps they will merely pick up and leave for Mars or Europa or Titan or, at last, as Robert Goddard envisioned, seek out an uninhabited planet in some young and promising planetary system.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan