A rare ‘Neptune-sized' planet has been discovered orbiting scorchingly close to its host star - only the fourth planet of its ...

Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

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

Chinese officials have announced the discovery of a massive deposit of high-quality gold ore, potentially worth around $83 ...

Observations between 2015 and 2022 show that these features are more prevalent at the south pole, appearing in 75% of the ...

Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, was researching young transiting systems in space when ...

The detection of a giant planet that transits a very young star is reported in Nature. The findings indicate that this is the ...

A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...

Researchers have discovered TIDYE-1b, a young planet only 3 million years old, rapidly orbiting its star. This finding ...

Researchers found signs of water-rich fluids on a 4.45 billion-year-old zircon grain from the Martian meteorite NWA7034, ...

The planet's very existence challenges current theories, as it's difficult for planets to retain thick gaseous atmospheres so close to their stars1.

Detecting such a young planet is exceptionally rare, as they are often hidden by swirling debris disks around their host suns ...