Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.
If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly double our solar system's speed through the Milky Way. The planetary system is thought to move at least 1.2 ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Exoplanet Proxima b, the closest one to Earth, may be home to a 124-mile deep ocean and marine life. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Science Exoplanet Proxima ...
Astronomers have made a thrilling discovery: LHS 1140 b, a distant rocky or icy exoplanet, might harbor a vast, temperate ocean, raising hopes of finding habitable worlds beyond our solar system.
A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) satellite ...