NASA has announced the discovery of TOI-3261 b, a rare “hot Neptune” exoplanet that defies the odds by surviving in an ...

Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the ...

A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange ...

A new study found that vast oceans could be on Uranus and Neptune. Astrophysicist Adam Frank joins Chris Jansing to share his ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

More than 4,000 have been detected to date using several techniques Many of these worlds are large planets believed to resemble Jupiter or Neptune Many giant planets have been found orbiting very ...

The researchers believe the new planet could be a precursor of the super-Earth and sub-Neptune planets that are frequently found orbiting main-sequence stars. The system could also be a useful ...

Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of 4.5 billion kilometres - more than 30 times further out than the Earth - Neptune is a dark, icy world. Receiving just one ...