Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

When University of Memphis history professor Aram Goudsouzian goes to work, it’s not a pleasant experience. That has nothing ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...