Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet.

Sub-Neptune planets that dance in time with the rest of their planetary systems are less dense than those that don't, planetary scientists have found. Though notably absent from the solar system ...

Researchers say the screen can work both indoors and outdoors, and can be adjusted to become more or less transparent ...

He is talking about space aliens. Known as the Fermi paradox, the question still hasn’t been answered. Despite numerous ...

Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of 4.5 billion kilometres - more than 30 times further out than the Earth - Neptune is a dark, icy world. Receiving just one ...

Aug. 31, 2023 — A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary ...

Researchers say the world is a type of 'hot Neptune'. Image via Roberto Molar Candanosa/ Johns Hopkins University. According to the team who found Phoenix, the planet won't survive more than 100 ...

The solar system has eight official planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But in recent years, astronomers have proposed that a ninth world, imaginatively ...

Sep. 2, 2022 — What goes on inside planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team conducted a novel experiment. They fired a laser at a thin film of simple PET plastic and ...

Nicknamed "the Great Dissolver," Neptune is known as an “elusive, dreamy and hypnotic planet,” per astrologer and bestselling author Lisa Stardust. Just as the planets have different meanings ...

Neptune was (in 1846) the first planet to be discovered by mathematical prediction rather than empirical observation, and in this book, first published in 1855, Nichol describes that discovery to a ...