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An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...
An international team of astronomers has found that super-Earth exoplanets are far more common across the universe than once ...
Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.
Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, ...
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...
"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...
A new study led by astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has revealed that planets ...
The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...
In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...
Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...