Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

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The strangest part of the TOI-201 system is not that it holds three very different worlds. It is that astronomers can actually watch the arrangement change. Around a bright F-type star, researchers ...

Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science A strange giant ...

The red giant star Kepler-56 has a really weird spin, and it may be because it consumed one of its planets. Kepler-56 already has two known exoplanets, but they may have had a long-lost sibling, ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Many astronomical objects play by clear rules and fit into neat categories, but brown dwarfs (celestial objects too massive to be mere planets, but too small to be real stars) continue to refuse to ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary ...