Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered an exoplanet dubbed HD 20794 d ... Best of all, it's just 19.7 light-years away from Earth. This raises the tantalizing possibility ...

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator.

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b ... VLT to trace the planet’s composition by measuring how the light of its host star travels through its upper atmosphere.

If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system ... Mount John Observatory in New Zealand—in search of light signals that betray the presence of exoplanets ...

Known as exoplanets, these make Neptune seem close indeed. The closest exoplanet – called Proxima Centauri b – is four light years away, or 24 trillion miles. NASA helpfully explains that if we were ...