Astronomers believe an egg-shaped exoplanet is hurtling towards its parent star faster than previously thought, Space.com reports. It’s called WASP-12b, and while the existence of an egg planet is ...

WASP-12b was originally discovered in 2008 and since then has been a point of interest for many astronomers around the world due to its strange and relatively close proximity to Earth. WASP-12b is an ...

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WASP-12b is an extreme hot Jupiter in a 1 day orbit, suffering profound irradiation from its F type host star. The planet is surrounded by a translucent exosphere which overfills the Roche lobe and ...

Scientists have found a planet so strange, it seems to ignore the rules of physics we know! 🌌 This wild discovery, called WASP-12b, is a gas giant so close to its star that it’s stretched into the ...

Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon. The planet, a gas giant named WASP-12b, is the first carbon-rich world ...

Curious about the strangest planets out there? Prepare to dive deep into the cosmos, where bizarre and incredible exoplanets await. These planets are so unusual that they challenge everything we know ...

Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to ...