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Neptune-Like Exoplanets

NASA’s Roman Mission Shares Detailed Plans to Scour Skies
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct…

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NASA Scientists Spot Candidate for Speediest Exoplanet System
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Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If…

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Discovery Alert: a ‘Hot Neptune’ in a Tight Orbit
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By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star.…

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Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet
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The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only…

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Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle
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The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars…

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NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
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A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres…

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Strange New Worlds
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A world with two suns, a lava planet, and a world trapped in eternal darkness are just some of the…

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Kepler / K2
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The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for…

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Video: Lifting the Veil on Exoplanet Clouds
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will reveal secrets of clouds in the atmospheres of exoplanets – planets beyond our solar…