SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

The team behind this research reached this conclusion by studying 20 extrasolar planets or "exoplanets" as they crossed, or "transited," the faces of their parent stars using the Hubble Space ...

That means the peculiar exoplanet has a year that lasts just ... "That's why it looks really weird. We don't know why it still has an atmosphere when other 'hot Neptunes' that are much smaller ...

Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ... “The planet was just so weird,” says Charbonneau, now the Fred Kavli Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a peculiar exoplanet named Phoenix, which has puzzled astronomers due to its unexpected atmospheric retention despite harsh ...