Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

This week, an old astronomical controversy is renewed as researchers present new evidence for a hidden "Planet X" in our ...

Super-Earths might be far more common in the Universe than previously thought. A recent study using the KMTNet telescope ...

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which is twice as big as Earth, yet smaller than Neptune. It is believed that there are more such super-Earths outside our solar system. It is common to have such planets orbiting their stars.

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

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a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which is roughly six times the mass of Jupiter (making it a "super-Jupiter"), was the first transiting planet known to ...

In a 2021 update, the duo refined the theory, estimating Planet Nine to be just over six times Earth’s mass, with an orbit of 7,400 years—close enough to detect, possibly, with the upcoming ...