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Large And Small Planets Are Born From Very Different Circumstances
Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...
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4 miniature, Earth-like planets discovered extremely close to our sun
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...
What Happens When Planets Orbit Too Close to Fiery Young Stars
Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...
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Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
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Four small rocky planets confirmed orbiting nearby Barnard’s star
Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star – one of our closest stellar neighbors – though they concluded that all of them are too hot to harbor life, much ...