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

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

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

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

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Designated IRAS 04125+2902 b, the new planet is a baby, being only around 3 million years old, which also makes it the youngest planet so far discovered using the dominant method of planet detection.

While more than 80% of the ocean has never been explored by humans, scientists in the Bounty Trough, New Zealand, are making ...

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

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