“What the heck is this?”was the typical reaction of astronomers, and this is how scientists reacted when they received their first set of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of PSR ...

An artist's concept depicting the pulsar planet system. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Rarely even acknowledged as the first planets discovered beyond ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and it is rewriting what I thought I knew about how planets form and survive.

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system known as a “black widow. ” Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our ...

The first ever exoplanets were discovered 30 years ago around a rapidly rotating star, called a pulsar. Now, astronomers have revealed that these planets may be incredibly rare. The new work will be ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and ...

Every time a new planet is discovered, there is reason to celebrate. That's understandable, seeing how from the potential billions of them, we only know for sure some 6,000 exist. That being said, we ...