Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 22 July 2026
22 July 2026
Discovery of a distant Jupiter-mass object could pave the way for detection of exomoons — plus, a rare transmissible cancer found in catfish.
By
Benjamin Thompson &
Nick Petrić Howe
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter
Astronomers Discover the First Known Moon Outside our Solar System
Astronomers discover celestial object unlike anything seen before
Astronomers think they've discovered a giant moon in another star system
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A huge cosmic object could force astronomers to rethink what a moon is
Is This the First-Known Exomoon? Astronomers Just Made That Question Even Harder
New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels
Exomond: Forscher entdecken ungewöhnliches System dreier Himmelskörper
Detectan una posible exoluna en un lugar donde nadie esperaba encontrarla
Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
A discovery in a solar system 73 light-years from Earth is challenging definitions and “blurring the lines between stars,…
The discovery of a distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.
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Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 July 2026
And it's not orbiting a planet.
