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Bronny James has been cleared by doctors for a full return to basketball four months after suffering a cardiac arrest

The Atlanta Falcons are tied with New Orleans at the top of the NFC South despite having a 5-6 record

Vincent Kompany does not look like a man who is feeling the pressure

There could be yet another delay in the long-running doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva

The Los Angeles Rams will host the Cleveland Browns on Sunday looking for their third straight win to stay in the NFC playoff race

Scientists have found a vast planet, so large that it should not exist. The planet appears to be too big for its sun, and therefore calls into question our understanding of how planets and solar systems form, according to the researchers who found it. The planet is more than 13 times as massive as Earth. It orbits around a star that is nine times less massive than our Sun. As such, the ratio between the two of them is 100 times higher than it is between the Earth and our sun. It is the first time that a planet with such a high mass has been seen orbiting a star with such a low amount of mass. And the discrepancy is so large that scientists thought such a planet could not exist. “This discovery really drives home the point of just how little we know about the universe,” said Suvrath Mahadevan, from Penn State. “We wouldn’t expect a planet this heavy around such a low-mass star to exist.” When stars are formed, out of large clouds of gas and dust, that material sticks with the star as a disc that orbits around it. Planets can then form out of that extra material, and go on to make a planetary system like our own. But science would suggest that the disc around the star in the new paper, known as LHS 3154, would not have enough material to make a planet so large. “The planet-forming disc around the low-mass star LHS 3154 is not expected to have enough solid mass to make this planet,” Mahadevan said. “But it’s out there, so now we need to reexamine our understanding of how planets and stars form.” The finding is reported in a new paper, ‘A Neptune-mass exoplanet in close orbit around a very low mass star challenges formation models’, published in Science. Read More Astronomers find unprecedented ‘disc’ around distant planet Planet too big for its sun ‘is challenging the idea of how solar systems form’ Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets are punching holes in edge of space

The Indiana Hoosiers are finalizing a deal to hire Curt Cignetti as their new football coach, two people with direct knowledge of the decision have told The Associated Press

Ryan Blaney already has his eyes on another prize

A limited-edition stamp honoring the late UCLA basketball coach John Wooden will go on sale early next year

No. 5 Oregon plays No. 3 Washington in the Pac-12 Championship in Las Vegas on Friday night

Bubba Wallace acknowledged it was difficult for him to find joy in best friend Ryan Blaney’s first NASCAR championship

The AFC West-leading Kansas City Chiefs head to Green Bay on Sunday night to play a regular-season game at Lambeau Field for the first time since 2015