Hot Jupiters rank among the strangest planets astronomers have ever found. They are gas giants as massive as Jupiter, yet they race around their stars in just a few days. Since the first such world ...
Astronomers were also able to learn a lot more about HD 143811 AB b, discovering that this planet is a whopper, at around six ...
A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...
New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...
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An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...
Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets and their parent stars. The red giant star Kepler-56 has a really weird spin, ...