Siraj’s Planet Y search started about a year ago when he was trying to find out whether the shape of the Kuiper Belt is flat.

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

Astronomers have found new evidence, revealing the existence of an unseen and mysterious planet that could be hidden in the ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK’s WASP project in ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant five times more massive than Jupiter, is the first planet of its kind to be observed growing inside ...

Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...