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Could there be an Earth Twin on the Other Side of the Solar System Sharing Earth’s Orbit?

In fact, no. At least if we are talking about another planet, call it an “invisible twin”, on the…

Yes, though the formation process for such a system is rather difficult to construct, making such binary planet systems…

It would be an exaggeration to call Jupiter a failed star as its mass is far from being large…

You can get a sense of the biggest problem with sending anything to other potentially habitable planets by checking…

Yes. Planets that orbit a single star in a binary star system are called “non-circumbinary planets”. In general, a…

Even when Mars is very close to the Earth, the two moons that orbit Mars, Phobos and Deimos, are…

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