Just a few weeks ago, we crossed the significant milestone of 6,000 known exoplanets. The counter keeps getting higher, and there are 8,000 more candidates waiting for confirmation. In the decades ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that ...