A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation ...

A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...

Since the 1990s, humanity has discovered some truly bizarre exoplanets. Very hot, very big, orbiting multiple stars, or at a ...

Webb spots a bizarre exoplanet with a carbon-rich atmosphere orbiting a pulsar, defying theories of how planets form.

Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...

A depiction of a gas giant planet with rings orbiting a distant star. Astronomers detected hundreds more new worlds beyond the solar system this year and worked to better understand what makes them ...

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot Jupiter" planets may not be lonely giants after all. The findings could force scientists to revise their ...

Artist's concept depicts new research that has expanded our understanding of exoplanet WASP-69 b's "tail." NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have ...

A pair of stars with three planets in orbit around one star or the other is the first system of its kind that has been confirmed. Pairs of stars, known as binaries, appear to be more common in the ...