Two new exoplanets and the need for new habitable zone definitions

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...
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Meet ‘Planet Y’ As New Evidence Suggests Secret World Beyond Neptune

There may be a warp in the Kuiper Belt, possibly caused by “Planet Y” — a Mercury-to-Earth-sized world that orbits the sun way beyond the orbit of Neptune. Is there a mysterious “Planet Y” orbiting ...
SETI

Orbital Oddity and Neptune: Resonant Object Hints at Planetary Migration

Astronomers studying the distant reaches of our Solar System have identified an unusual trans-Neptunian object (TNO) locked in a rare orbital configuration with Neptune. The object, discovered through ...
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Scientists are investigating why Neptune’s clouds are suddenly fading away

As far as we know Neptune is the furthest full-size planet in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun some 2.69 billion miles away ...