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The planet Neptune is about 30 times farther from the sun than Earth, and as you’d expect, it’s a frigid world. As it turns out, it’s getting even colder when it should be heating up. That’s the latest from an international team of astronomers that just completed a 17-year analysis …

In the last few decades, astronomers have slowly but surely added to the number of known exoplanets. Even the largest planets can be hard to spot, though, and moons are even smaller. Well, usually. A team working with data from the dearly departed Kepler space telescope has reported a possible …