University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

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