In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.