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That means the peculiar exoplanet has a year that lasts just ... "That's why it looks really weird. We don't know why it still has an atmosphere when other 'hot Neptunes' that are much smaller ...

In 2021, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ... They also orbit incredibly close to their host star, which is weird because scientists think such large worlds would struggle ...

Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ... “The planet was just so weird,” says Charbonneau, now the Fred Kavli Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University.

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...