An artist's concept depicting the pulsar planet system. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Rarely even acknowledged as the first planets discovered beyond ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a carbon-rich atmosphere on a tiny world orbiting a dead, rapidly spinning ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So scientists should welcome ...

In 1992, astronomers discovered the first exoplanets in an unexpected part of the universe: around a pulsar, a rapidly spinning stellar corpse. Not many other pulsar planets have been found since then ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it ...

In a startling new observation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a planet with an atmosphere made almost entirely of carbon, orbiting a rapidly spinning pulsar. The planet, named PSR ...

Penn State’s Alex Wolszczan, the discoverer in 1992 of the first planets ever found outside our solar system, now has discovered with Caltech’s Maciej Konacki the smallest planet yet detected,in that ...

Astronomers from the University of Manchester have recently presented a study at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022) revealing that exoplanets orbiting rapidly rotating stars known as pulsars ...

The first ever exoplanets were discovered 30 years ago around a rapidly rotating star, called a pulsar. Now, astronomers have revealed that these planets may be incredibly rare. The first ever ...