A Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the millisecond pulsar PSR J2322-2650 completes a full year in roughly 7.8 hours, placing it ...

Every gas giant astronomers have ever studied shares a basic recipe: a thick envelope of hydrogen and helium, with heavier ...

A newly discovered alien planet that formed from a dead star is a real diamond in the rough. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The ...

A team of international researchers have discovered a planet that be made largely of diamond. The planet was discovered orbiting a pulsar, a type of small star that rotates rapidly while emitting a ...

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 ...

Every time a new planet is discovered, there is reason to celebrate. That's understandable, seeing how from the potential billions of them, we only know for sure some 6,000 exist. That being said, we ...

An international research team has found an exoplanet made entirely of diamonds. Although this may seem glamorous, researchers think it is only the desolate remains of a star, robbed of its mass by ...

What types of exoplanets orbit pulsars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated an exoplanet with unique ...

A neutron star has stripped off most of the mass of a carbon-rich white dwarf, allowing the remainder to cool off enough to crystallize into a diamond. <a href='http ...