A red dwarf star is shaking up current planetary formation models by hosting a gas giant. This discovery challenges our understanding of planet formation around the smallest stars. Gas giants like ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

Scientists Astonished By Discovery of Giant Planet That Doesn't Make Any Sense: 'We Don't Understand' After decades of ...

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how planets form.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope may have directly imaged a Saturn-mass planet orbiting the young star TWA 7.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.