Astronomers have unexpectedly discovered the heaviest Neptune-like planet yet — one more than four times the mass of our solar system's Neptune — yet it remains a mystery how the world might have ...
Astronomers have discovered a rare planetary system that dances to a cosmic rhythm. Located 105 light-years away in the ...
Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...
A team working with data from the dearly departed Kepler space telescope has reported a possible moon orbiting an exoplanet some 5,000 light years away. It falls somewhere between the size of Earth ...
Although the exoplanet TOI-1853 b is roughly the size of Neptune, its mass is almost twice that of any other known planet of comparable size. For this reason, TOI-1853 b should not exist, at least ...
A Neptune-sized planet closely orbiting its host star has just been discovered, making it only the fourth object of its kind ever identified. Scientists detected the planet, designated TOI-3261 b, ...
Astronomers say they have spotted, for the first time, what appears to be the exposed core of a gas giant planet that has shed -- or never found -- its gaseous atmosphere. A team lead by the ...
In October 2018, astronomers discovered what they thought could be an exomoon, a moon outside our solar system. The exomoon, which is estimated to be the size of Neptune, was found in orbit around a ...
Artist’s concept of a Neptune-sized planet, left, around a blue, A-type star. UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a hard-to-find gas giant around one of these bright, but short-lived, stars, right ...
SAN ANTONIO - Like a giant croquet ball, a massive planet the size of Neptune or Uranus may have been knocked by Jupiter out of the solar system into deep space millions of years ago, scientists at ...
Storm’s surprise appearance in area where no such cloud has been seen before Spectacular sunsets and sunrises are enough to dazzle most of us, but to astronomers, dusk and dawn are a waste of good ...