Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and it is rewriting what I thought I knew about how planets form and survive.

New Scientist. In each episode, hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte explore what would happen if they were given cosmic powers to rearrange the universe. They speak with astronomers, cosmologists and ...

Astronomers have cataloged thousands of exoplanets, and a pattern keeps showing up: Around most stars, the most common planets are bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. They’re often called ...

Finding new worlds out there is pretty exciting, right? Scientists are getting really good at spotting planets around other ...

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In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...

Daniel Apai is a professor of astronomy, planetary sciences and optical science at the University of Arizona. He receives funding from NASA. Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very ...

Measurements of the masses of exoplanets orbiting a young star have identified a system of low-density ‘super-puff’ planets. Read the paper: A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in ...