Since the discovery of exoplanets, a planet that orbits stars outside the solar system, astronomers and scientists have been astounded by the strange characteristics of these extrasolar planets. To ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began carrying out large-scale, long-term surveys of other stars, that we started to ...