Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...

Those measurements confirmed that a Jupiter-sized planet was orbiting the star and that its orbit was highly eccentric, bringing the planet extremely close to the star before flinging it far out.

If Jupiter's orbit became more eccentric the team found that Earth's orbit would be pushed into becoming more eccentric too. This means at times Earth would be even closer to the sun than it ...

Artist's impression of TIC 241249530b, a gas giant on the way to becoming a hot Jupiter with possibly the most eccentric orbit we have ever seen. Image Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva ...

The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2005 b, is about the size of Jupiter and orbits its host star on a highly eccentric orbit. The discovery was reported March 25 on the arXiv pre-print server.

The orbit of the newfound exoplanet spotted with TESS may have been influenced by another planet. Astronomers have discovered a new "warm-Jupiter" planet with a strange, flattened and misaligned ...

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how hot Jupiter exoplanets are born, finding a gas giant with a weird orbit in the process of transforming into just such a world.

Super-Jupiters in particular tend to have more eccentric orbits than smaller, more Jupiter-like gas giants do, which suggests they formed in more turbulent star systems, ...

Oh, Jupiter. If only the gas giant shifted its orbit slightly, becoming more eccentric (read: oval-shaped), it could transform the shape of Earth’s orbit, too, causing parts of the blue planet ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...

Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the galaxy. These scorching worlds are as massive as Jupiter, and they swing wildly close to their star, whirling around in a few days compared ...