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Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a ...

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Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

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