Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific ...

For decades, scientists have believed that planetary systems typically form with rocky planets close to their star and gas-rich planets farther away. This discovery questions their knowledge.

ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) has revealed a four-planet system whose outermost world is a small and rocky planet -- not a gas giant.

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets.

As the paper's title mentions, two new exoplanets are described as temperate, putting them and the stars they orbit into a small, fairly exclusive club. " TOI-6716 and TOI-7384 join the select club of ...

Since the early days of exoplanet discovery, astronomers have confirmed almost 4,200 worlds orbiting distant stars, as well as thousands of more candidates. And with those kinds of numbers, there are ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Despite its unmemorable name, J2322-2650 is a strange system. A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbits an energetic neutron star, which constantly bombards it with gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has ...

Space scientists are puzzled after the discovery of a bizarre planet — shaped like a lemon. Astronomers have spotted an unusual exoplanet orbiting a pulsar, with a bizarre ovoid form sculpted by ...