The observations of TIC 241249530 b, first captured by NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite in January 2020, offer rare, revelatory insights into what may be a planet on the path to becoming a ...

Brown: Strange Planet's blue aliens try hard to understand Earth customs After reading Nathan W. Pyle’s Strange Planet, your perceptions of the human race and their world may shift a bit.

“Strange Planet” is a simple show, and purposefully so. Based on the popular comic strips by Nathan W. Pyle, who co-created the Apple TV+ series with “Rick & Morty’s” Dan Harmon, the half-hour ...

With each pass of the host star, the planet’s orbit loses energy, so astronomers estimate that in hundreds of millions of years, the orbit will shrink and stabilize to last just a few days ...

The planet is just 3 million miles from its star, more than 10 times closer to the star than Mercury gets to the sun. For reference, Mercury is located about an average distance of 36 million miles ...