The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. In the new JWST image, it appears as a faint, fuzzy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved an unprecedented feat by capturing a direct image of a distant, icy planet.

After the first planet was found, the race was on to discover more. After the year 2000, a series of ground-based telescope networks began to emerge, designed to search systematically for more ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...

The planet 2M1510 (AB) b orbits two stars — like Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine, for the Star Wars fans — but it does so in a highly unusual way.

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

Our solar system has a nice selection of planet types. We have ultra-hot worlds orbiting close to our Sun, rocky worlds like Earth and Mars, … ...

Strange planet with a backward, cucumber-shape orbit is turning into another kind of world. Story by Ashley Strickland, CNN • 8mo. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Strange planet with a backward, cucumber-shape orbit is turning into another kind of world. Ashley Strickland, CNN. July 17, 2024 at 4:05 PM. Copied; NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva.