There is more than meets the eye for a distant gas giant planet. Astronomers have discovered that the extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," not only has one of the weirdest orbits ever seen, but it is ...

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 ...

This artist’s impression shows a Jupiter-like exoplanet that is on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter — a large, Jupiter-like exoplanet that orbits very close to its star. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva ...

The eight planets in our solar system (yes, it's still weird for me to write "eight," too) orbit the sun in roughly circular paths, although they're ever-so-slightly ellipses instead of circles. A new ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have detected an exoplanet with a highly oblong orbit that experiences wild temperature swings — and it may be transitioning into another type of world. The exoplanet, named TIC ...

Hot Jupiters, massive worlds that orbit close to their host star, likely weren’t always so hot. Astronomers believe that these exoplanets formed cold, in the outer regions of their star systems, and ...

The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the midst of becoming a hot Jupiter, ...

Brad Carter receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Jonti Horner received funding from the Australian Research Council in 2016 to help construct Minerva-Australis, the exoplanet ...

The type of orbit an exoplanet occupies could result in astronomers missing out on possible radio transmissions coming from the planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Adriana Errico, PhD. candidate (Astrophysics) ...