Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

Science teaches us that stars are much larger than planets, but what about large planets that orbit small stars? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...

Astronomers on Wednesday have discovered a huge planet orbiting a tiny star. This bizarre pairing has left the scientists puzzled. The small star is called TOI-6894. Most stars in the Milky Way galaxy ...