What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international ...

These planets are so unusual that they challenge everything we know about the universe. ... the mysterious GJ 504b glowing in magenta, ... Learn about Bliss 436b, which has a comet-like tail, ...

Neptune-sized Gliese 436 b is so close to its bright parent star that the planet’s atmosphere is evaporating away, leaving a cometlike tail trailing behind the planet, as depicted in this artist’s ...

Moments of the virtual journey, with overlaid astronomical data. (Credit: RenderArea) (CN) — The first breath taken by a human on another planet will not happen by accident. It will take a lifetime of ...

Europe's newest space telescope starts its study and characterisation of distant planets. ... Artwork: GJ-436b orbits so close to its star that its atmosphere is being lost to space.

One of GJ 3470b’s fellow planets is GJ 436b, which astronomers believe is losing its atmosphere as its star strips it away. Scientists think that 436b will survive the ordeal without being ...

When planets like this evaporate, ... The discovery of GJ 3470b and GJ 436b evaporating atmospheres helped the scientists to continually understand what happens to planets in distant worlds.

Scientists say that Gliese 3470b is losing its atmosphere at 100 times the speed that another evaporating exoplanet, Gliese 436b, ... Half the planet could be gone over the next few billion years.

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 ...

Hubble has now spotted a hot Neptune named GJ 3470b that’s vanishing at a record rate. ... GJ 436b. The team estimates that the planet has already lost more than a third of its mass over its ...

Now, astronomers have used Hubble to nab a second “very warm” Neptune (GJ 3470b) that is losing its atmosphere at a rate 100 times faster than that of GJ 436b. Both planets reside about 3.7 million ...