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Finding life isn’t as simple as finding a planetary system like our own. Dwarf stars got some love recently with the discovery of ...

By Alex ChaversApril 13, 20170

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Should Pluto be a planet? Does it matter? One group of NASA scientists are emphatic. Yes on both. One month after a group ...

By Alex ChaversMarch 21, 20170

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Satellites come in all shapes and sizes. They can fit in your palm, or stretch the length of a school bus. From a ...

By Alex ChaversOctober 21, 20160

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2MASS J2126 was believed to be a free-floating planet. A planet without a home star. But a team of astronomers in the UK, ...

By Alex ChaversJanuary 26, 20160

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Two researchers. Each looking at the same star. Stephanie Sallum (a UA graduate student) and Kate Follette (former UA graduate student now at ...

By Alex ChaversNovember 19, 20150

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Seems like an easy question, right? It was, until the 1990s. Before the 1990s, a planet was defined as any large body orbiting ...

By Alex ChaversNovember 11, 20150

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It is being described as “one of the most remarkable images ever seen at these wavelengths.” The image was captured by the Atacama ...

By Alex ChaversNovember 6, 20140

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