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

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 ...

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

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

We might finally understand what’s going on inside Uranus and Neptune, and the answer is pretty surprising: They may each ...