If confirmed, this would be among the largest rocky planets we’ve ever found. Found about 500 light-years from Earth, BD+20594b completes an orbit of its host Sun-like star every 42 days.

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.

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

Exoplanets orbit stars outside of our solar system. Sub-Neptunes refer to planets between the size of our solar system's largest rocky planet, Earth, and the smallest gas giant, Neptune.

Exoplanets See a young star potentially giving birth to a giant planet in new image from Very Large Telescope. ... The largest rocky planets, called "super-Earths," are about twice as wide as Earth.

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

Since its 2021 launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has gathered extensive data on known exoplanets while offering insights ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

Exoplanets orbit stars outside of our solar system. Sub-Neptunes refer to planets between the size of our solar system's largest rocky planet, Earth, and the smallest gas giant, Neptune.

Image caption: A light curve from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) shows the change in brightness from the LHS 475 star system over time as the planet transited ...

Astronomers have discovered a small exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our sun. This newly discovered exoplanet designated as Barnard b [2] has at least half the mass ...