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

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

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified a previously unknown kind of exoplanet, one whose ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden ...

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Astronomers are getting used to a strange new kind of cosmic mystery: worlds that seem to appear in their data, linger for ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

From ancient stargazers to modern-day space scientists, women have shaped our understanding of the cosmos. This crossword ...