Neptune-Like Exoplanets

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A dark planet, left, is shown in close orbit around its star, right; some of the planet's atmosphere is being blown outward by the star.

Discovery Alert: a ‘Hot Neptune’ in a Tight Orbit

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By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star.…

Article4 weeks ago

Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet

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The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only…

Article1 month ago

Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle

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The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars…

Article7 months ago

NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking

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A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres…

Article1 year ago
Where the Sun Sets Twice (Artist Concept)

Strange New Worlds

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A world with two suns, a lava planet, and a world trapped in eternal darkness are just some of the…

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How NASA’s Roman Could Help Find Other Earths by Surveying Space Dust

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A team of scientists found NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of…

Article3 years ago