A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.
Researchers found that the oxygen atoms are linked in an irregular structure, almost like a crystal, unlike their usual ...
The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...
It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.
Jupiter and Saturn's different polar storms reveal clues about planet interiors: Saturn has harder bottom than Jupiter.
In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...
Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...
Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with ...
At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...
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 ...