Learn about Bliss 436b, which has a comet-like tail, and WASP 12b, a planet so hot it’s almost uninhabitable. These exoplanets defy expectations and open up new possibilities for space ...

Or you can try to bring a little bit of beauty into the world.” Neptune-sized Gliese 436 b is so close to its bright parent star that the planet’s atmosphere is evaporating away, leaving a cometlike ...

Gliese 436b is the third-closest exoplanet to Earth and happens to pass between our planet and its red dwarf star. In simpler terms, Gliese 436b passes in front of its star at the point where it ...

Early targets for investigation include the so-called "Styrofoam world" Kelt-11b; the "lava planet" 55 Cancri-e; and the "evaporating planet" GJ-436b.

One of GJ 3470b’s fellow planets is GJ 436b, which astronomers believe is losing its atmosphere as its star strips it away.

Recent findings published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics showed that GJ 3470b is vanishing 100 times faster than a similar medium-sized exoplanet, GJ 436b.

The new exoplanet is dubbed Gliese 3470b, and the big thing about this exoplanet is that it is losing its atmosphere at an incredible rate. Hot Neptunes are exceedingly rare, and scientists have ...

In addition, although the two planets are of comparable size, GJ 3470b is less dense than GJ 436b, which means its gravitational hold on its atmosphere isn't as strong. It's a result that confirms ...

GJ 3470b's lower density makes it unable to gravitationally hang on to the heated atmosphere, and while the star hosting GJ 436b was between 4 billion and 8 billion years old, the star hosting GJ ...

But with GJ 3470b, it's more like a burst water main. The exoplanet is losing mass 100 times faster than the only other known hot Neptune, GJ 436b.