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"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

Explore the discovery of seven Earth-like planets beyond our solar system.

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On Earth, DMS is made by ocean plankton, then quickly broken down in the atmosphere through photochemical and other reactions ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

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