Scientists Astonished By Discovery of Giant Planet That Doesn't Make Any Sense: 'We Don't Understand' After decades of ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

A team of astronomers has uncovered an extraordinary cosmic mystery, a giant planet that seems to be hurtling toward a fiery ...

This artist's illustration shows the shadow of a planet passing in front of the red dwarf star AU Microscopii. Blue clouds depict the planet's atmosphere, which is evaporating as the star blasts ...

Planets 'Too massive for its star': Scientists discover enormous planet that changes what we know about red dwarfs LHS 3154 b is 13 times Earth's mass, but its host star is 11% of our sun's mass ...

The star is only about 2 percent as luminous as the sun, so the planet gets enough heat to warm it to about negative 20 degrees Celsius. Chilly, sure, but mind you that’s if it doesn’t have an ...

In the Star Wars universe, Tatooine is a planet orbiting a binary star system, ... (and much cooler) red star which contributes only about 1 percent as much light." ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away may have a thick, sulfurous atmosphere, fueled by constant volcanic ...

Red dwarfs like Barnard’s Star are happy hunting grounds for planet chasers: They are not only the most common stars in the universe but also the most easily wobbled by their planets, especially ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

17-year-old NASA intern discovers rare new planet 00:47. For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet - not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp.