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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...
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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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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes than smaller worlds.
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The Story of How Pluto Was Discovered 95 Years Ago
Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...
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"We've Been Wrong For A Long Time": Protoplanetary Disks Are Much Smaller Than We Thought
A new study using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has taken a look at the Lupus molecular ...
Four small planets discovered around one of the closest stars to Earth—an expert explains what we know
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
Four planets found orbiting a star 6 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...