One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

The Jupiter-size planet was discovered by NASA's James WebbSpace Telescope (JWST) and is so strange that it challenges ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...

Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system’s ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

In 2004, a bright point of light in the debris disk surrounding Fomalhaut was thought to be an exoplanet. But the spot ...

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Astronomers have discovered a lemon-shaped planet that orbits a tiny star, but that's not the only weird thing about it.

Learn more about PSR J2322-2650b, a lemon-shaped exoplanet that may be in a toxic relationship with its host star.

But that’s nothing compared with PSR J2322-2650b, an object the mass of Jupiter studied recently by the James Webb Space Telescope. This planet’s equatorial diameter is about 38 percent wider than its ...