NASA Exoplanet Archive added 13 transit-detected planets on November 5, 2026, across eleven stellar systems. Highlights ...

Astronomers have studied a strange, puffy, scorching-hot planet located 600 light-years away, and have seen elements that would normally form rocks, but are so hot that they have vaporized into the ...

Astronomers have been surprised to discover a class of very hot planets with thick atmospheres. How these atmospheres survive is major mystery, and solving it may offer insight into the prospects for ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Astronomers have discovered a new Jupiter-sized exoplanet that ...

A group of astronomers from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, India has discovered a scorching new exoplanet where a year lasts just a few days, according to the Indian Space ...

"This new planet supports the theory that high eccentricity migration should account for some fraction of hot Jupiters," says Sarah Millholland, assistant professor of physics in MIT's Kavli Institute ...

Scientists discovered an exoplanet that has some wild characteristics. This exoplanet, called GJ 367b, was identified by researchers using data collected by TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...

More than 500 extrasolar planets — planets that orbit stars other than the Sun — have been discovered since 1995. But only in the last few years have astronomers observed that in some of these systems ...