The JWST discovers an impossible anomaly on TOI-5205 b and challenges everything we thought we knew about giant planets.

Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that ...

Pyle An international team including the University of Bern (UNIBE) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), members of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, has succeeded in mapping the ...

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...

Scientists confirmed that an exoplanet mirrors its star’s chemical makeup, validating a core assumption about how planets ...

Dying stars may be wiping out nearby giant planets as they expand into red giants. Astronomers found that these close-in planets become increasingly rare around more evolved stars, suggesting many ...

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month in what’s known as a planetary parade. Catch the spectacle while you can because it’s the last one of the year. These linkups happen when several ...

Venus and Jupiter dominate April's evening sky, while Mercury, Mars and Saturn linger in the dawn — here's how and when to ...