The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted exoplanet locked in a frantic orbit around a rapidly spinning pulsar.

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

No known process explains how such a carbon-heavy planet as PSR J2322-2650 b could form, according to new research. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration Astronomers have found a strange ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s possible for these distant worlds. And when we say say “stretch, ...

The discovery of exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b reveals how unusual other worlds can be. This exoplanet takes just 7.8 hours to ...

Astronomers have found a strange world outside the solar system that is ripe for science fiction — but it's all real. The exoplanet, dubbed PSR J2322-2650 b, has a helium-and-carbon atmosphere, ...