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Illustration of 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth that's thought to have a thick layer of diamond (Yale News/Haven Giguere) If…
[/caption] Astronomers have found four nearby white dwarf stars surrounded by disks of material that could be the remains of…
Located 880 light-years away, a massive gas giant called CoRoT-2b orbits its star at a mere 2 million miles –…