The astronomical confusion started at 2 a.m ET on June 26, 2023. Scientists using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope sought to observe a planet beyond our solar system (an exoplanet) called ...

The unusual system of three “super puff” planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other planets An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a fourth world in a strange system of ultralight "super puff" planets. The new extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" was discovered ...

How many exoplanets are in the cosmos and what can they tell us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an ...

Fluff surrounds the solid interiors of each of the three planets in the Kepler 51 star system. Each of these planets was discovered to have masses "only a few times larger than Earth's" with radii ...

New Delhi: In 2012, it was found that Kepler-52, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star has three exoplanets in its orbit. Each of those exoplanets turned out to be with a density higher than cotton candy.