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Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

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