Exoplanets

This almost Jupiter-sized object is orbiting a brown dwarf, which, in turn, is circling around a small star

The planet LHS 1140 b lies in its star’s habitable zone, which already made it a prime candidate as a possible host for life

Beta Pictoris d is more than twice the size of Jupiter, but it is a baby compared to its humongous neighbors

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built around

Astronomers have for the first time observed an atmosphere around a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf

A cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts

Planets might exist in the least likely place you’d imagine—around the outskirts of supermassive black holes

An out-of-this-world weather report from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals how clouds move across a giant planet hundreds of light-years from Earth

Ahead of schedule and under budget, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch in early September. The mission aims to map the universe in unprecedented detail

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed rapidly in a chaotic disk at the dawn of the solar system

The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see a new solar system as it forms

Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But that may soon change