Astronomers have discovered a hefty new Super-Earth that's as dense as lead. This rocky world might just be the leftover core of a gas giant that flew too close to its sun. Meet K2-360 b, an exoplanet ...

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What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Since humans launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, we have polluted the once-empty space around Earth to the point that it is now becoming dangerous, according to former NASA scientist Donald Kessler. "We're at ...

A tiny fraction of carbon helps account for the oddly light density of Earth's iron core, a new computer simulation finds. Though the core is only 0.1 percent to 0.8 percent carbon, the iron ball is ...

The hunt for Earth-like planets orbiting other stars is inherently challenging. Earth is relatively small in size and low in mass, and it orbits far enough from the Sun that liquid surface water is ...

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