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 planet, HR 5183 b, ... Enormous Planet With Bizarre Orbit Is Unlike Anything Ever Discovered Before, Astronomers Say. Published Aug 28, 2019 at 5:24 AM EDT. By .

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.” ...

Take “eyeball planets,” which are half frozen, half broiling with the heat of their suns. Earthlike planet Zarmina, in the Gliese system , is one of these. We shouldn’t rule these bizarre ...

The bizarre find is the first of its kind ever discovered by astronomers. The strange, cometlike planet, known as GJ 436b, is orbiting a red dwarf star and is about 22 times as massive as Earth.

Although scientists have yet to find the elusive Planet 9, ... The exoplanet HD 106906 b is 336 light years from Earth and has a bizarre orbit around its pair of host stars, ...

Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth. The bulky object—possibly the core of a failed gas giant—challenges what astronomers think about how planets form.

For instance, ex-planet Pluto has a rather strange orbit, as does Eris, another massive dwarf planet in our solar system. But HR 5183 b is weird ...