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Astronomers caught four planets in a rare baby phase that may explain the most common worlds in the galaxy

Astronomers have cataloged thousands of exoplanets, and a pattern keeps showing up: Around most stars, the most common ...

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...
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Strange worlds: Planets are forming in ways we didn’t anticipate

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...
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Baby planets offer a missing clue to the galaxy’s most abundant worlds

New research tracks young planets around a nearby star, showing how large, gas-rich worlds shrink over time to become the most common planets in the galaxy ...