The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

New photos of Neptune’s glowing auroras are the most detailed ever captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – but has also left astronomers with more questions. Auroras can happen on any planet, ...

The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...

Of all the potential super-Earths—terrestrial exoplanets more massive than Earth—out there, an exoplanet orbiting a star only 40 light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus might be the most ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

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