17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... is the case, then it is also likely that if Triton does have an ocean, it probably developed after it was captured by Neptune; something that so far is believed to be unique among other known ocean worlds. Understanding how interior oceans form...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... is proving to be something of a serendipitous find for Dragomir and her team, as along with the atmospheric-rich sub-Neptune, another tentative discovery was made; a smaller companion with a shorter 7.8-day period, which, if confirmed, could become...
03 July 2019
New study reveals detailed exoplanet atmosphere
...'s Hubble snd Spitzer space telescopes to understand its chemical make-up. Gliese 3470 b (also known as GJ 3470 b), is a sub-Neptune/Super-Earth hybrid exoplanet weighing in at 12.6 Earth masses. It is more massive than Earth, but less massive than...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... journey on considerably shorter timescales. However, that could soon change as ideas for a vehicle that could reach Neptune in a year are being investigated. Humanity’s aim to be master of exploration in the solar system has hit a stumbling block...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...up to ten times that of our planet, gas dwarfs, temperate Neptunes. The sheer range of planetary bodies discovered has caused a paradigm ... separation from its host star similar to that of Neptune from the Sun. Those observations were made with the...
04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
In a stellar system 8000 light-years from Earth, astronomers have found the first compelling evidence for a Neptune-sized moon orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet. Detections of exoplanets come thick and fast nowadays as a multitude of telescopes ...
