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 think they've discovered a giant moon in another star system
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
Exomond: Forscher entdecken ungewöhnliches System dreier Himmelskörper
Astronomers may have discovered the 1st moon outside of our solar system — or is it something weirder?
Astronomie: Erster plausibler Hinweis auf einen „supermerkwürdigen“ Exomond
(S+) Sonnensystem: Forschende wollen erstmals einen Exomond entdeckt haben
Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
The discovery of a distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 July 2026
And it's not orbiting a planet.
The almost Jupiter-sized object is orbiting a brown dwarf, which, in turn, is circling around a small star
Astronomers discovered a moon-like object orbiting a brown dwarf that's orbiting a star. Say that three times fast.
