At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star’s chromosphere brightens.

Scientists from Queen's University Belfast have led an international team in the discovery of a rare new planet, which is ...

For more than a century, people have wondered whether our solar system's planetary count really stops at eight. The idea ...

A giant planet circling a dead star should not be there. That was the puzzle hanging over WD 1856 b ever since astronomers ...

A planet roughly the size of Neptune has stunned astronomers by orbiting its star in the opposite direction of the star’s ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and thus exist outside the solar system. The word "exoplanet" ...

Discovered in 2013, the Pink Planet orbits a sun-like star located 57 light-years from Earth. At roughly 25 times the mass of ...

Webb captures dramatic temperature spikes on HD 80606 b, one of the most extreme giant planets ever discovered.

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...