A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

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When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

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Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it ...

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

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