Discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, TrEs-2b absorbs 99% of the light it is struck with and reflects only 1%, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet orbiting a dense, rapidly spinning dead star. Using the James ...

Pulsars emit a lot of radiation, in particular high-energy gamma-rays and radio waves pulses. That light is invisible to JWST, which studies the universe in infrared, but it affects the planet’s ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with a debris trail like a comet that stretches up ...

Learn more about PSR J2322-2650b, a lemon-shaped exoplanet that may be in a toxic relationship with its host star.

Why it's weird:Waterworld is possibly Kevin Costner's biggest regret. But in astronomy, a water world is far less disappointing. Discovered in December 2009, this planet has the best possibility of ...

Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the strangest known worlds in the universe. It orbits a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar – this in itself is unusual, but it is ...

“This system is unique because we are able to view the planet illuminated by its host star, but not see the host star at all, ...