This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

The planet was first found in the year 2018 orbiting around a K-type, or orange dwarf, star. K2-141b's orbit is close to its host star — it takes a mere 0.3 Earth days to complete one orbit, at ...

After the first planet was found, the race was on to discover more. After the year 2000, a series of ground-based telescope networks began to emerge, designed to search systematically for more ...

Strange planet with a backward, cucumber-shape orbit is turning into another kind of world. Story by Ashley Strickland, CNN • 8mo. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

Our universe is full of strange and inhospitable worlds, many of which are so terrifying, they would be a nightmare for any ...

As fascinating as bizarre signals from other planets can be—teaching us about earthquakes on Mars or auroras in the skies of Jupiter —sometimes even weirder signals come from weather extremes ...

Our solar system has a nice selection of planet types. We have ultra-hot worlds orbiting close to our Sun, rocky worlds like Earth and Mars, … ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...

Strange planet with a backward, cucumber-shape orbit is turning into another kind of world. Ashley Strickland, CNN. July 17, 2024 at 4:05 PM. Copied; NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva.