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This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / ...

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The planet likely lost whatever volatiles it had long ago, and the red dwarf star it orbits is responsible. Gliese 367 is a red dwarf star (M dwarf) about 30 light-years away with three known ...