HD 206893 c is on the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or "failed star." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ...

A newly discovered gaseous planet has been directly photographed orbiting a star about 300 light-years from Earth. Imaging alien planets is difficult, and this world may be the least massive planet ...

This could be the start of two brilliant scientific careers. Two Massachusetts high schoolers — 16-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright — have helped discover four new alien planets, ...

Astronomers have captured what may be the first-ever direct photograph of an alien planet in the process of forming around a nearby star. The picture, which captured a giant alien planet as it is ...

NASA has found a strange alien planet sitting outside our solar system. Why is this unusual? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others ...

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, already had a reputation as a rather extreme place, a scorching hot gas giant a bit larger than Jupiter that is a ...