NASA's TESS satellite has discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet closely orbiting its host star. It's just the fourth object of ...

A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ...

Researchers have discovered a Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, which orbits its star every 21 hours, placing it in the rare ...

This ultra-hot Neptune-sized planet, is only the fourth object of its kind ever found. NASA scientists have discovered an ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare type of planet called a “hot Neptune.” Named TOI-3261 b, this Neptune-sized planet is ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet, TOI-3261 b, that races around its star in just 21 hours. Dubbed a “hot Neptune,” ...

Using NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) along with observations from ground-based telescopes in Australia, ...

NASA scientists have identified a new exoplanet, TOI-3261 b, with an extraordinarily short year lasting just 21 Earth hours.

But planets the size of Neptune (in the middle of the plot) are scarce close to their star. This so-called desert of hot Neptunes shows that such alien worlds are rare, or, they were plentiful at ...

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The measurements placed the new planet squarely in the "hot Neptune desert"—a category of planets with so few members that their scarcity evokes a deserted landscape. The team, led by astronomer ...