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 ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to follow the rules. Around Neptune in particular, a handful of newly charted ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system ...

'This challenges current models of disk chemistry and evolution' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the James Webb Space ...

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Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, challenging prevailing theories. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

PSR J2322-2650 b is pulled and stretched with a lemon-like appearance due to the immense gravity that surrounds it. The gravity is so strong that the planet cannot retain its spherical shape. Instead, ...