Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

The strangest part of the TOI-201 system is not that it holds three very different worlds. It is that astronomers can ...

Astronomers have made an unexpected discovery about the planet TOI-3884b, which orbits its star at a crazy angle. The planet’s orbit is tilted by around 62 degrees compared to the star’s rotation, and ...

Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science A strange giant ...

Exoplanet TOI-5205 b has been a head-scratcher since its discovery. It is just over the size of Jupiter and orbits a red dwarf star with a radius only about 4 times as big as its own. How this unusual ...

Hot Jupiters rank among the strangest planets astronomers have ever found. They are gas giants as massive as Jupiter, yet they race around their stars in just a few days. Since the first such world ...