I n our solar system, Jupiter is the biggest planet at 88,846 miles in equatorial diameter — the distance through the planet from one side to the other at its equator — and a mass of 1,898 × ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Other citizen science groups contributed as well, including the TESS Follow-up Observing Program Sub Group 1 (TFOP SG1) and ...

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 ...

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

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

The planet—named Eps Ind Ab—was observed with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and is at least six times the mass of Jupiter. With a temperature of around 275 degrees Kelvin ...

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a ...