The James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery. It has found its first new planet named TWA 7b. This ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how planets form.

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

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Webb has directly imaged a young gas giant planet roughly the size of Saturn, our solar system's second-largest planet, ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk of material - ...

However, the planet found orbiting TOI-6894 is as large as Saturn, the second-largest planet in our solar system. This discovery marks the smallest-known star to host such a large planet, being about ...