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SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.