"We expected to see this effect, but we were still surprised by just how efficient these stars seem to be at engulfing their close planets."
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists mapped the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b in three dimensions, uncovering a blistering hotspot where water molecules are torn apart.
Using NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter, astronomers have discovered a strange arrangement of exoplanets around tight binary stars that shouldn't be.
The super-Earth exoplanet is "one of the best candidates in the search for an atmospheric signature of life."
V883 Orionis is a young star that formed in the Orion Nebula half a million years ago.
The world's first commercial astronomy space telescope will look for stars that may host habitable exoplanets.
If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. This strange world breaks almost every known rule for how planets should behave.
We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these planets be called "rocky giants" instead.
A baby exoplanet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a never-before-seen view of planet formation.
After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer.
