Hot Neptune
Titanium Clouds Make This Exoplanet Shine Like a Mirror
ESA's Cheops mission has been studying an ultra-hot exoplanet around a nearby star and discovered its metallic clouds reflect about…
10 months ago
The Discovery of a Hot Neptune that Shouldn’t Exist
1800 light-years away, an unlikely survivor orbits an aged star. This rare planet is called a hot Neptune, and it's…
1 year ago
Hot Stars Blast Away at gas Giants Until Only Their Rocky Cores Remain
We don't see many Neptune-sized worlds closely orbiting their star. That may be because the star robs them of their…
2 years ago
Red Dwarf Star, Planet Orbiting at Right Angles. Mayhem.
A new study of a well-known exoplanet has revealed something very strange. Apparently, the planet orbits its star from pole…
6 years ago