The potential planet, which is unnamed and roughly the size of Saturn, was spotted in the spiral galaxy Messier 51, or what's known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, about 28 million lightyears away from ...

For the very first time astronomers may have detected a planet outside of the Milky Way—and it could be the size of Saturn. The so-called “extroplanet” is in the Whirlpool Galaxy ...

The team found evidence of a possible planet in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), which is around 28 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy is also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy because of ...

The newly uncovered planet, minted M51-ULS-1b, resides in the Whirlpool galaxy, our Milky Way’s neighbor, located 28 million light-years from Earth. It orbits two hosts: a massive star ...

To spot the planet, the team led by Di Stefano used ... They found the possible exoplanet in the Whirlpool galaxy in a binary system orbiting two large objects: either a neutron star or a black ...

The unnamed exoplanet — the name for a planet that exists in a solar system outside of our own — is believed to exist in the in the M51, or "Whirlpool" galaxy, around 28 million light-years ...

Over the last three decades, humanity has discovered thousands of planets in our galaxy beyond ... orbited by a massive star located in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51). According to their paper in ...

the x-ray binary system within the Whirlpool Galaxy, may host a Saturn-size planet that orbits as far from the binary as Uranus does from our sun. If this planet really exists, M51-ULS-1 would ...

The possible planet was discovered in a spiral galaxy called Messier 51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, which is more than 23 million light-years from Earth. The first exoplanets, or planets ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stellar new image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (aka M51 or NGC ... a more clear time scale for when planets and brown dwarfs form because once ...

Scientists are turning to the beautiful and famous Whirlpool Galaxy to look for areas where stars could eventually be born. By mapping out the presence of particular chemicals, they hope to learn ...

Astronomers may have spotted the first known planet in another galaxy. The potential world, called M51-ULS-1b, orbits both a massive star and a dead star in the Whirlpool galaxy, about 28 million ...