NASA recently announced a major breakthrough in the ongoing search for planets outside our solar system, with the confirmation of over 5,500 exoplanets. This milestone not only highlights rapid advances…
A "super Jupiter" has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and it has a super orbit. Related video above: First image from Japanese lunar…
There is more than meets the eye to a distant gas giant planet. Astronomers have discovered that the extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," not only has one of the strangest orbits…
An artist's illustration of a planet—though not LHS 1140 b—outside the Solar System. A planet relatively close to Earth may be the first discovered with a potentially life-sustaining liquid ocean…
Astronomer David Kipping of Cool Worlds fame urged other astronomers to use their telescope time to observe a particularly unusual star that appears to have a very strange or "seemingly…
An artist's concept of WASP-107 b shows turbulent atmospheric mixing in the planet's gaseous envelope. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins UniversityJames Webb Space Telescope The data reveal that WASP-107 b…
A new catalog of 126 worlds outside the Solar System contains a cornucopia of newly discovered planets — some with extreme and exotic natures, but others that could potentially support…
Scientists using NASA's space telescope have discovered a tantalizing world. It is about the size of Earth, is remarkably close to our solar system, and could be suitable for life…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that a Jupiter-sized, cotton candy-like planet located about 350 light-years away is shrinking and may be on its way to becoming "sub-Neptune"…
The warm gas giant WASP-107 b, known for its unusually low density and moderate temperature, may have its bloated atmosphere due to tidal heating that warms its interior more than…