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

Orbiting a pulsar, astronomers have found a strange, lemon-shaped exoplanet with winds of helium and pure carbon, denser than ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and exciting." Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary system ...

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is frantically escaping into space.

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

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About 620 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon, a strange planet is devouring everything around it at a furious pace. Cha 1107-7626, a “rogue” planet because it doesn’t orbit a star, has ...

Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...

"If trying to explain how three super puffs formed in one system wasn’t challenging enough, now we have to explain a fourth planet." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.