Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Three years later came news of the first known exoplanet, a Jupiter-like gas giant ... of three main detection techniques, which all involve both ground- and space-based observatories.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

The exoplanet is also likely tidally locked to its star the same way the moon is to Earth — but perhaps its biggest eccentric ...

Best of all, it's just 19.7 light-years away from ... are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. As of January 28, 2025, there are 5,830 confirmed ...

Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun, are likely more numerous than the stars themselves. In the last 30 years over 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered. These worlds come in all ...

The exoplanet is also likely tidally locked to ... making it one of the puffiest planets known to astronomers. So, its heavily inflated nature enables eager astronomers to look through the upper ...

Scientists found winds on WASP-127b moving at 33,000 km/h. These are the fastest jetstream winds ever recorded on any planet ...

The exoplanet's extreme circuit—which looks closer to a cucumber than a circle—follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known exoplanets, planets that orbit stars ...

all the time.) And yet, this inhospitable world has clouds of molten iron droplets. Where did it come from? How does it stay so hot? We simply don't know yet. The closest exoplanet to Earth is ...

In 2021, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spotted the super-Earth, a fascinating development that suggested WASP-132 is a remarkable planetary system. Scientists now know the ...