Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea ...

These exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, defy our earthly expectations ... through the cosmos to explore some of the strangest exoplanets that have baffled and ...

Nasa's eagle-eyed Kepler Space Telescope spotted TrES-2b - the ... which arguably makes it one of the strangest planets ever discovered. Of all the exoplanets ever discovered, just a handful ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...

it glows a fiery red when seen from space. No planet like this has ever been observed before, researchers say, and follow-up observations will be required to confirm the strange world's existence.

From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is — or how normal." JWST's observations revealed that the HR 8799 planets contain more abundances of heavy elements ...

We could find extraterrestrial beings in gas on faraway planets that are very unlike our ... looking at exoplanets using Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, they said. The gases themselves ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered in clouds of iron and magnesium minerals.

As the most distant planet in the solar system, it only receives a dim ... But the Voyager 2 mission did discover the strange nature of Neptune's magnetic field, tilted at a steep angle.

IT'S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been located.