When you imagine planets outside of our solar system you might dream up ocean worlds, thick plains of ice, or boiling seas of molten rock. Worlds like those certainly do exist out there somewhere, but ...

Astronomers have found that the gas giant WASP-12b reflects almost no light, which makes this exoplanet almost pitch black. WASP-12b, which was discovered in 2008 is one of the best-studied exoplanets ...

Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to ...

Wasp-12b has to be one of the most fascinatingly alien planets out there (even for an alien world, it’s bizarre); imagine Earth and then picture the polar opposite. Only then can you begin to ...

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Astronomers recently discovered an exoplanet they’ve been studying since 2008 is pitch black, reflecting almost no light. The new findings could change what the researchers previously hypothesized ...

Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition ...

Astronomers believe an egg-shaped exoplanet is hurtling towards its parent star faster than previously thought, Space.com reports. It’s called WASP-12b, and while the existence of an egg planet is ...

Six hundred light-years from Earth, a huge exoplanet circling close to its home star is slowly, inexorably being devoured. WASP 12B orbits just 2 million miles from its star, which means the surface ...

WASP-12b was originally discovered in 2008 and since then has been a point of interest for many astronomers around the world due to its strange and relatively close proximity to Earth. WASP-12b is an ...

This artist's impression shows the exoplanet WASP-12b -- an alien world as black as fresh asphalt, orbiting a star like our Sun. NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI) When you imagine planets outside of our ...