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

The two events -- first seen in 2004 and again in 2023 -- represent the first time astronomers have directly imaged collisions between large objects in a planetary system beyond our own.

From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026

With a mass similar to Saturn, the researchers suggest that it most likely formed within a planetary system rather than developing on its own like a small star or brown dwarf.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026

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

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