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A Nearby Planet Four Times Earth’s Mass Was Just Found, and NASA Is Paying Close Attention
NASA has identified a new super-Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the Subaru Telescope, marks the first detection by a ...
Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...
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