How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...
Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have spotted a possible icy dwarf planet far beyond Pluto, provisionally ...
Two newly confirmed "super-puff" planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter. Their rare orbital relationship and enormous, lightweight ...
A team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, spotted a rare kind of planet that's unusually hot and eccentric. TOI-1355 b orbits its star, TOI-1355, which is also much hotter ...
NASA Exoplanet Archive added 13 transit-detected planets on November 5, 2026, across eleven stellar systems. Highlights ...
The solar system is a dynamic place, and objects located 180° from a planet don’t stay that far from the planet for long. The reason is the differences in their orbits. Orbits come in all shapes and ...