"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

From planets that rain glass sideways to worlds made entirely of ice or fire, the universe is full of bizarre and mind-blowing planets — and 2025 has brought even more to the list. In this video, we ...

James Webb Telescope Discovers Strange Planet with Carbon Atmosphere Surrounding a Pulsar!

In this latest data mining, scientists unexpectedly discovered two planets with extremely unusual orbits, whose trajectories differ dramatically from the known patterns of planetary orbits. In our ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

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A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...