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 of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

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 ...

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

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

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 ...

Proxima Centauri b, the closest known exoplanet to our solar system, orbits in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri.It has a mass of 1.27 Earths, making it a super-Earth, a type ...