Astronomers have identified a vast, cotton-candy–light “super‑puff” world that loops around its star in a wildly misaligned ...

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

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

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

New simulations examine whether the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system could host moons, showing that only small, close-orbiting moons could remain stable over long periods ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you’ll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system. It’s too faint to see with the naked eye, ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet with a highly oblong orbit that experiences wild temperature swings — and it may be transitioning into another type of world. The exoplanet, named TIC 241249530 ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

One hundred light years away, a handful of planets are circling a star in the same configuration as when they formed. By Katrina Miller Astronomers have discovered six planets orbiting a bright star ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.