Astronomers have discovered a new "warm-Jupiter" planet with a strange, flattened and misaligned orbit around its parent star. The exoplanet, designated TOI-1859 b, was discovered using NASA's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Io, as seen by JunoCam on NASA’s Juno spacecraft on April 9, ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers make most precise measurement to date, say ...

TESS SPOC PDC SAP light curves and ground-based transits of TOI-1859 b. TOI-1859 b transits are labeled in blue on TESS light curves in the left two panels. The median of the fitted transit model is ...

Berkeley — A bound pair of icy comets similar to the dirty snowballs circling outside the orbit of Neptune has been found lurking in the shadow of Jupiter. Astronomers at the University of California, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and it has a super orbit. The planet is roughly the same diameter as Jupiter, but with ...