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Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non ...

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered the fastest disintegrating planet ever seen. The planet is crumbling so fast due to bombardment ...

Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite was set to leave Earth Wednesday a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. 51 Pegasi b, seen here in an ...

The Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (Asteria) satellite, a joint effort by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to ...

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered the fastest disintegrating planet ever seen. The planet is crumbling so fast due to bombardment ...