This space documentary explores some of the most extraordinary exoplanets and cosmic destinations discovered across the Milky Way. The journey begins in the Kuiper Belt before traveling to Proxima ...

Scientists find planet unlike anything ever seen before – and it was born in the strangest way - World is made up of pieces ...

Two newly confirmed "super-puff" planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter. Their rare orbital relationship and enormous, lightweight ...

A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds form. A “lonely” hot Jupiter — typically found without nearby companions — is ...

Astronomers have catalogued more than five thousand planets orbiting distant stars, and a handful of them defy almost everything scientists thought they knew about how planets should look or behave.

Astronomers have identified a massive, eccentric hot Jupiter whose changing orbital geometry is expected to carry it out of ...

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's composition, but also its origin, according to a new study. A team led by Penn State ...