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.

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

Learn more about PSR J2322-2650b, a lemon-shaped exoplanet that may be in a toxic relationship with its host star.

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with a debris trail like a comet that stretches up ...

Why it's weird:Waterworld is possibly Kevin Costner's biggest regret. But in astronomy, a water world is far less disappointing. Discovered in December 2009, this planet has the best possibility of ...

Artist's concept depicts new research that has expanded our understanding of exoplanet WASP-69 b's "tail." NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have ...