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Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of a third exoplanet ...

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...

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A superconducting kinetic inductance detector improves sensitivity limits needed for observing cold astrophysical objects, ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...

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What happens to planets as their stars age and come closer to death? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...