Exoplanets

Space mystery could be solved by these ‘shrinking’ planets

[ad_1] A study on the planets titled “Detection of Atmospheric Escape from Four Young Mini Neptunes” has been submitted to the The Astronomical Journal and is awaiting peer review. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have analyzed three newly discovered exoplanets known as mini-Neptunes, and a fourth mini-Neptune discovered earlier this year. The …

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New Analysis of Kepler Data Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanets

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Kepler Space Telescope ended its wildly successful planet-hunting mission last year, but it’s still making discoveries from the grave. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has since taken up the planet-hunter banner, but it’s got a long way to …

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