With the aid of NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS, citizen scientists have discovered a new gas giant that is cool, literally and ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb ...

Alien planet photo: In an astronomical first, a telescope in Chile has spotted the formation of a gas giant in the dust cloud orbiting a nearby star.

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

However, as much as the light from TOI-849b's star would sear the exoplanet, the scientists noted such heating alone might still not strip a gas giant's atmosphere down to nearly the planet's core.

Gas giants are planets, like our solar system’s largest ones Jupiter and Saturn, composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with swirling gases surrounding a smaller solid core.

A giant planet 1,300 light years away is scorchingly close to ... Giant alien planet seen spiraling ... with the finds including “hot Jupiters,” gas giants that orbit their stars closer ...

A new theory of planet formation could mean that Earths and Super Earths were created when gas was stripped from gas giants. Scientists have found more than 600 alien planets so far.

There's a "blue marble" alien planet just 63 light-years from Earth, but the world is anything but friendly to life. Researchers say the blue color in the atmosphere likely comes from a rain of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently discovered a star surrounded by a huge dust structure that stretches about 150 billion miles across. Scientists suspect that a giant planet is also embedded ...

A planet outside our solar system the size of Jupiter is evaporating due to close proximity to its star. Latest. U.S. ... Alien planet's evaporating atmosphere revealed.