It is only about one-fifth the mass of our sun ... "In small clouds of dust and gas, it's hard to build a giant planet," said exoplanet scientist and study co-author Vincent Van Eylen of University ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

We did not expect planets like TOI-6894b to be able to form around stars this low-mass. This discovery will be a cornerstone for understanding the extremes of giant planet formation.” TOI-6894b is a ...

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

Scientists Astonished By Discovery of Giant Planet That Doesn't Make Any Sense: 'We Don't Understand' After decades of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The star is only about a fifth the mass of the sun.

An artist's impression of a newly discovered giant planet named TOI-6894 b (top right) orbiting a red dwarf star (center) about 20% the mass of the sun, the image was released on June 4, 2025.

Astronomers have discovered a strange giant planet orbiting a tiny star - and nobody knows how it got there. The star is a distant red dwarf known as TOI-6894 which is just a fifth the mass of our ...

It is only about one-fifth the mass of our sun. According to current models, stars of this size should typically host smaller planets, similar to Earth or Mars. However, the planet found orbiting ...

Planets beyond our solar system are called exoplanets. The one orbiting TOI-6894 is a gas giant, like Saturn and Jupiter in our solar system, rather than a rocky planet like Earth.

Astronomers stunned as giant planet challenges what we know about space. The discovery marks the smallest-known star to host such a large planet. ... It is only about one-fifth the mass of our sun.