How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

Astronomers in Poland have discovered a nearby exoplanet more than 11 times the mass of Jupiter, comfortably putting it in the pantheon of the most massive known worlds. The object is a cold super ...

'Everything about Jupiter is extreme:' NASA learns more about gas giant, its volcanic moon NASA scientists have sought to understand Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the ...

These bodies with masses between 13 and 75 times the mass of Jupiter (or 1.3% to 7.5% the mass of the sun) are, therefore, much fainter than regular main sequence stars, despite the fact that some ...

An interstellar object between 2 to 50 times the mass of Jupiter passing through the solar system provides a better explanation, the study says. Artist’s depiction of interstellar comet Oumuamua ...