Exoplanets come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and can be weird in all sorts of ways. There are football shaped exoplanets ...

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

In 2021, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ... They also orbit incredibly close to their host star, which is weird because scientists think such large worlds would struggle ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

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 ...