Hot Jupiters rank among the strangest planets astronomers have ever found. They are gas giants as massive as Jupiter, yet they race around their stars in just a few days. Since the first such world ...

It is naturally found in low concentrations on our planet, but the recent discovery of D₂O in space has helped astronomers to ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

We know Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, but we rarely observed or heard about ‘Hot Jupiter’, that are giant gaseous exoplanets that are much closer to the stars ...

CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...

For decades, scientists have studied how planets form by looking at young stars nearby, assuming that these environments could be representative of all star systems. However, as astronomers discover ...

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy – and why the life and death of nearby stars are an important piece of the puzzle. In a paper ...

How did a planet this big form around a star this small? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Liège and collaborators in UK, Chile, the USA, and Europe, ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with extreme heat and a carbon-rich atmosphere, leaving experts unsure how it even formed.