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Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

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Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

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The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...