Understand how observations using some new imaging techniques may change the way we think about how planets are formed.

“It’s a remarkable example of how dynamic the planet is over geologic time,” says Sean Gallen, an Earth scientist at Colorado State University who studies, among other things, how mountains are formed ...

Scientists have discovered a Super ... The super-Earth has roughly four times the mass of the Earth and was found using an infrared technique. The planet itself is extremely close to its star.