Unveiling the cosmic choreography that shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes
A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...
Rare photo said to capture all planets including Earth at once — for the first time ever: ‘Very tricky’
Everybody loves a parade. Most people who live in chillier climes aren’t exactly rejoicing when February rolls around — but this year, watchers of the night sky have been positively ecstatic over a ...
TOI-1453 c: A key sub-Neptune discovered in a system of two exoplanets
Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...
7 unseen images of Neptune captured by NASA
Neptune is an ice giant, composed primarily of hydrogen, helium, and methane, with a hot, dense fluid of icy materials above a small rocky core. Neptune has 14 known moons and at least five main rings ...
Ancient Asteroid Unlocks 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Secrets of the Solar System
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
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Uranus And Neptune's Deepest Oceans Make Earth's Look Like Puddles
They also weigh about the same, with Neptune coming in at 1.024 x 10^26 kg (about 17 times the mass of Earth) and Uranus weighing 8.682 x 10^25 kg (about 14 times the mass of Earth). What's more ...
Strangest worlds ever discovered in the universe – from stinky planet that rains glass SIDEWAYS to ‘Earth 2.0’
IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...
Super-Earths and mini-Neptunes: More Earth-like planets may exist
A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...
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Where Are the Universe’s Missing Planets?
Why does our solar system lack the most common types of planets in the galaxy—those larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune? And perhaps most important, how do these findings affect our ...
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Planetary parade 2025: What to know as 7 planets align in the night sky
To see Uranus and Neptune, you'll need a telescope ... The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different speed and distance.
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A Parade of Planets Is Marching Through the Night Sky
But Uranus and Neptune may require a telescope to see. Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will fall within Earth’s line of sight at sunset, and will not be ...
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Rare photo said to capture all planets including Earth at once — for the first time ever: ‘Very tricky’
And, experts say, the photo could be the first to crowd all eight planets, including Earth, into one frame ... Mercury and Neptune. “However, they were very tricky to spot.