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New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
Webb helps scientists better understand solar system's origins
University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...
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“Super-Earths” Don’t Exist In The Solar System – But They’re Very Common Elsewhere
"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...
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Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to better understand solar system's origins
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...
Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows
An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star ...
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Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not ...