Shrinking Planets May Explain Why Hot Super-earths Exist
Discover Magazine - Fri 21 Dec 18Astronomers have discovered a bizarre, Neptune-sized exoplanet located less than 100 light-years from Earth that's shedding its atmosphere so quickly it may help researchers finally answer the ...
Hints of young planets puzzle theorists
Science Now - Thu 20 Dec 18Dive over Jupiter's cloud-tops with Nasa's Juno craft
BBC News - Mon 17 Dec 18Nasa's Juno mission to Jupiter has reached its halfway mark and revealed spectacular views of the planet's polar storms.
Hubble finds far-away planet vanishing at record speed
Phys.org - Thu 13 Dec 18The speed and distance at which planets orbit their respective blazing stars can determine each planet's fate—whether the planet remains a longstanding part of its solar system or evaporates ...
Hubble finds distant planets are vanishing at record speed, Science Blog - Fri 14 Dec 18Hubble finds faraway planet vanishing at record speed, SpaceDaily - Fri 14 Dec 18
Hubble finds far-away planet vanishing at record speed, Eurekalert - Thu 13 Dec 18
Wild shrinking planet could explain how other Earth-size worlds form - CNET
CNET - Fri 14 Dec 18Astronomers spy quickly evaporating planet GJ 3470b, which could help solve an odd mystery about distant worlds.
Scientists Detect Hot Neptune Losing Atmosphere at an Extraordinary Rate
Extremetech - Fri 14 Dec 18Scientists have detected a so-called Hot Neptune losing atmosphere extremely quickly, possibly explaining why we find so few of them in the first place. The post Scientists Detect Hot Neptune ...
NASA's Hubble telescope discovered an 'evaporating' planet, study says
USA today - Fri 14 Dec 18Astronomers using NASA's Hubble telescope discovered an exoplanet with an atmosphere evaporating at a high rate.        
'Smoking Gun' Planet: This Neptune-Size Alien World Is Evaporating in Record Time
SPACE.com - Fri 14 Dec 18A gaseous alien world is evaporating at a record rate, shedding considerable light on an exoplanet mystery, a new study reports.
‘Hot Neptune' planets became rocky worlds known as 'Super Earths'
Daily Mail - Thu 13 Dec 18Astronomers from the University of Geneva say they have discovered for the first time a planet losing its atmosphere so quickly that it can impact its evolution.
This strange, shrinking exoplanet may help explain where hot super-Earths come from
Astronomy.com - Wed 19 Dec 18For planets that want to slim down, the key could be to sidle up next to an active star.
In Search of Missing Worlds, Hubble Finds a Fast Evaporating Exoplanet
Astrobiology Magazine - Fri 14 Dec 18Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized fish. Astronomers likewise have been perplexed in conducting a census of star-hugging extrasolar planets. ...
In search of missing worlds, Hubble finds a fast evaporating exoplanet, Eurekalert - Thu 13 Dec 18In search of missing worlds, Hubble finds a fast-evaporating exoplanet
SpaceDaily - Mon 17 Dec 18Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized fish. Astronomers likewise have been perplexed in conducting a census ...
Where did the hot Neptunes go
SpaceDaily - Mon 17 Dec 18Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 "But where did the hot Neptunes go?" This is the question astronomers have been asking for a long time, faced with the mysterious absence of planets ...
UNLV study unlocks clues to how planets form
SpaceDaily - Fri 14 Dec 18Las Vegas NV (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is ...
Where did the hot Neptunes go? A shrinking planet holds the answer
ScienceDaily - Thu 13 Dec 18'Where did the hot Neptunes go?' This is the question astronomers have been asking for a long time, faced with the mysterious absence of planets the size of Neptune. Researchers have just discovered ...
Where did the hot Neptunes go? A shrinking planet holds the answer, Eurekalert - Thu 13 Dec 18