However, recent follow-up observations of the star have called the planet's existence into ... exoplanet Kepler-36c. The two ...

It is very close to its star, completing a single trip around the alien sun every ... all sides of the planet would be spherical and symmetrical, he said. "But if you crank up the stellar wind ...

"Forming large planets close to the star is difficult because the protoplanetary disk dissipates away from closest to the star the fastest, meaning there's not enough material to form a large ...

As of January 2012, the tally of confirmed alien worlds has skyrocketed ... because of their large masses and close proximities to their parent stars. Nearly two dozen planets have been detected ...