Astronomers have discovered a rare lemon-shaped planet called PSR J2322-2650b orbiting a city-size star. Found using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the Jupiter-size world is stretched by extreme ...

Looking up into the night sky, it can be difficult to comprehend the vastness of the space that surrounds the Earth – and the impressive size of the various stellar and planetary bodies on display.

[Larger image] A second Jupiter-sized planet has been detected orbiting 47 Ursae Majoris, a star similar to the sun. In a striking parallel to our solar system (bottom), both Jupiter-size planets are ...

The fate of Neptune-like worlds that migrate close to their star is to be whittled away by stellar radiation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...