What kind of planet wears a diamond heart and a soot-filled sky? Astronomers now have an answer but it’s stranger than they ever imagined. PSR J2322-2650 b is a Jupiter-mass exoplanet about 750 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite its unmemorable name, J2322-2650 is a strange system. A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbits an energetic neutron star, which ...

Space scientists are puzzled after the discovery of a bizarre planet — shaped like a lemon. Astronomers have spotted an unusual exoplanet orbiting a pulsar, with a bizarre ovoid form sculpted by ...

Pulsar planets research investigates planetary-mass companions orbiting pulsars, focusing on their formation, dynamical evolution, and detectability in extreme post-supernova environments. This area ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and it is rewriting what I thought I knew about how planets form and survive.

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system known as a “black widow.” “This was an absolute surprise,” said study co-author ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our ...

Space is full of mysteries that can't be easily explained by the layman, and this latest one from a isn't likely to sour anyone on their fascination with space. Scientists from several institutions, ...

This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b may look like. Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar it orbits are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into this bizarre lemon ...