“Like finding a snowball that hasn’t melted in a fire.” Deep in space, where planets are either roasting or frozen, astronomers just found an impossible world—a Neptune-sized exoplanet that orbits its star so closely it should have evaporated long ago. ...
Imagine a world where the skies rain vaporized metals, and winds howl at speeds that make Earth’s fiercest hurricanes seem like gentle breezes. Welcome to WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, an exoplanet located approximately 900 light-years away in the constellation ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified a new exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s Star, one of our sun’s closest neighbors, situated approximately 5.96 light-years away. This finding not only confirms the existence of a planet around this star but also hints ...