A trio of newly discovered exoplanets is defying the expectation that binary systems are hostile to planet formation, according to an international team of researchers.

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...

Three decades ago, in 1995, humankind discovered the first planet beyond the borders of our solar system. It's called 51 Pegasi b, and it spins around its main-sequence star (meaning not unlike our ...

That's a big deal, as "PLATO is on track for the final key tests to confirm that it is fit for launch," ESA officials wrote ...

If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. Second, TOI-4507 b is on a nearly polar orbit; it swings around its star almost perfectly perpendicular to the ...