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An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

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Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

The image was captured by the world's most powerful solar telescope, which takes 2D snapshots of the sun at specific ...

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Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...