In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

TOI-6894 is roughly 240 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo and is the smallest-known star to host a large planet ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt ...

The exoplanet Wasp-121b orbits its star in a very close orbit. However, it originated much further away, as researchers have ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

A team of international scientists recently published the discovery of nine new hot Jupiter exoplanets in The Astronomical ...

How do ultra-hot Jupiters form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated | Space ...

"Studying the chemistry of ultra hot planets like WASP-121b helps us to understand how gas giant atmospheres work under ...

Astronomers Spot a 'Highly Eccentric' Planet on Its Way to Becoming a Hot Jupiter July 17, 2024 — The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the surprising origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b ...