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 ...

A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...

The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics figured out, space reveals something so bizarre it rewrites the rulebook. These ...

Scientists from several institutions, including the University of Chicago, discovered a lemon-shaped planet with an ...

Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to follow the rules. Around Neptune in particular, a handful of newly charted ...

Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

Astronomers said planet PSR J2322-2650b appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere unlike any ever seen ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation ...

'This challenges current models of disk chemistry and evolution' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the James Webb Space ...

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

In a major first, scientists have detected water vapor and possibly even liquid water clouds that rain in the atmosphere of a strange exoplanet that lies in the habitable zone of its host star about ...