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 ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

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

The discovery of exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b reveals how unusual other worlds can be. This exoplanet takes just 7.8 hours to ...

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

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

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

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

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

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 ...