Hubble Space Telescope discovers planet vanishing at record speed

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a planet GJ 3470b roughly the size of Neptune, evaporating at a rate 100 times faster than a previously identified exoplanet of similar size.<br />''<br />''<br />''The findings advance astronomers' knowledge about how planets evolve.<br />''<br />''<br />''The planet is 96 light-years away and circles a red dwarf star in the general direction of the constellation Cancer.<br />''<br /&g...