The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

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

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...

A massive planet trapped in a death spiral around its star could unlock some of the secrets surrounding star systems. However, the fate of this world is not yet set in stone, with two deaths and one ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted exoplanet locked in a frantic orbit around a rapidly spinning pulsar.

"This makes TOI-2267 the first binary system known to host transiting planets around both of its stars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...