exoplanet

The planet GJ 1132 b was born a gaseous world with a thick blanket of atmosphere and several times the radius of Earth. The "sub-Neptune" lost its primordial hydrogen and helium atmosphere because of intense radiation from its hot, young…

A Cornell University-led team of international scientists detected radio bursts from the constellation Boötes, possibly the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D.…