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Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

Seven years into its mission, NASA’s TESS satellite has already confirmed roughly 700 exoplanets. That sounds like a lot. But the telescope watches over 2 million stars, and most signals flagged as ...

Credit: Kamalika Chakraborty A bizarre pair of planets 190 light-years away is forcing astronomers to rethink how planetary ...

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One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

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