An international team of astronomers have found that there are far more planets of the hot Jupiter type than expected in a cluster of stars called Messier 67. This surprising result was obtained using ...

(CNN) — It’s rare for astronomers to spot a planet in a star cluster. That’s partly why a cluster called Messier 67 is so special: We now know that it has three planets orbiting stars. Even more ...

It took six years to do it, but astronomers have discovered at least three planets circling stars in a crowded star cluster some 2,500 light years away from Earth. Even better: One of the planets is ...