IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...

Everybody loves a parade. Most people who live in chillier climes aren’t exactly rejoicing when February rolls around — but ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

"If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star." The star and the planet it drags along with it were first hinted at in data collected way back in 2011 thanks to a ...

NASA scientists just announced the discovery of the youngest planet every found in the universe. The planet is named K2-33b, and closely orbits a new star — which makes the planet very hot.

it would be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star. The pair of objects was first sighted indirectly in 2011 by chance, according to NASA. The agency said a team of scientists ...

"It will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star." Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its ...