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How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...
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How Mars 'punches above its weight' to influence Earth's climate

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...
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Strange discovery offers 'missing link' in planet formation: 'This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems'

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Jupiter's hidden depths: Simulation suggests planet holds 1.5 times more oxygen than the sun

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...
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Discovering seven Earth-like planets in space

The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal NASA’s discovery of seven Earth-like planets Donald Trump announces major change for ...
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Helldivers 2 Is Letting Players Vote On Which Planet Gets Hit By Its Not-A-Death-Star

The latest twist in the Helldivers 2 saga kicked off last week when Super Earth announced that it was upgrading the Democracy ...
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Astronomers Find an Odd Space Cloud, Like a Galaxy Without Stars, That Could Shed Light on the Secrets of Dark Matter

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...