In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

U.S. astronomers say they have detected a swirling disk of dust around a star that could unveil more about how planets form. Using the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers at the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted ...

Astronomers have found the brightest and youngest example yet of a fast-spinning star, suggesting that the extremely luminous versions of these super-dense objects may be far more common than thought.

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...