Distant Planet is Half Fire, Half Ice (SPACE.com / LiveScience.com)

Ker Than Staff Writer SPACE.com Thu Oct 12, 2:30 PM ET The poet Robert Frost wondered if Earth would wind up a world of fire or ice. Astronomers have discovered that a distant planet is both. With one side always hot as lava and the other chilled possibly below freezing, Upsilon Andromeda b is a giant gas planet [ image ] that orbits extremely close to Upsilon Andromeda, a star 40 light-years from our solar system in the constellation Andromeda. "If you were moving across the planet from the night ...