Ten Exotic Planets Outside Our Solar System Discovered With New Technique. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 04 / 080401095218.htm ...

Distant rocky planets may have exotic chemical makeups that don’t resemble Earth’s. Debris on white dwarf stars offers a possible peek inside the worlds that once orbited them ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a blistering 19-hour orbit.

On Planet GJ1214 B, Expect Exotic Cloud Cover From the journal Nature, so-called "super Earths" that orbit distant stars are among the most common planets in the galaxy.

To better understand planetary populations, scientists want methods to detect planets around more exotic stars, like pulsars with their bright beams of light or this type of system, called a ...

WATER WORLD New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet GJ 1214b, shown orbiting its star in this artist’s conception, is 6.5 times the size of Earth and composed ...

Lynette Cook’s favorite exoplanet is the gas giant HD 222582 b, whose 572-day orbit takes it on a highly eccentric path around its star. This view shows the planet as seen from the surface of a ...

Astronomers have detected water vapor and evidence of exotic clouds in the atmosphere of a Neptune-mass planet known as HAT-P-26b.

Surprise 'exotic' exoplanet spotted 1,200 light years away. ... has not one but possibly two planets in orbit. In 2012, astronomers found CVSO 30 hosted one exoplanet, ...

There are rocky planets, like Earth, and gas giants, like Uranus and Saturn. There are also more exotic planets—hot Jupiters, carbon-rich “diamond” planets and iron-heavy “cannonball ...