Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a massive hidden planet far beyond Neptune, using decades-old infrared data. The object’s ...

Scientists from several institutions, including the University of Chicago, discovered a lemon-shaped planet with an ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

One such superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...

PSR J2322-2650 b is pulled and stretched with a lemon-like appearance due to the immense gravity that surrounds it. The gravity is so strong that the planet cannot retain its spherical shape. Instead, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a planet so close to its star that it's stretched into the shape of a lemon.

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 ...

A new discovery made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may be the weirdest exoplanet yet. The planet, designated ...

Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, aka the Southern Fish, and is one of the ...