JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...

The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts metallic clouds and rains gems. Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter" — in 2016, but have continued to investigate ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said.

About 620 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon, a strange planet is devouring everything around it at a furious pace. Cha 1107-7626, a “rogue” planet because it doesn’t orbit a star, has ...

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A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

An artist's conception of a gas giant world (the large planet on the right) in another solar system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle (SSC) The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts ...

This handout artist’s impression released on October 2, 2025 shows Cha 1107-7626, a rogue planet located about 620 light-years away about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star.

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday.