Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Experts have determined it to be a "super-puff," an exoplanet with a large but extended atmosphere. The most noteworthy ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. But look beyond our sun's gravitational pull into the ...