Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Since the discovery of exoplanets, a planet that orbits stars outside the solar system, astronomers and scientists have been astounded by the strange characteristics of these extrasolar planets. To ...

Beyond our solar system, there’s a whole selection of planets unlike anything we see around the Sun. In the cosmic candy shop, there are Ring Pops (less magnificent versions of Saturn), Hot Tamales ...

14 Herculis c one of at least two gas giants – both significantly bigger than Jupiter – that have been observed orbiting a central star in an X-like pattern. Among the nearly 6,000 exoplanets so far ...

Ultra-hot Jupiters — named as such because of their physical similarities to the planet Jupiter — are exoplanets that orbit stars other than the sun with temperatures so high that the molecules in ...