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Latest articles by Adam Cole

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Understanding the innards of exoplanets could help the search for alien life.

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Tiny wobbles and faint twinkles have led astronomers to discover nearly 5,000 new worlds.

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In the last decade, scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets — and a lot of them are surprisingly weird.

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