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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Former (and current) goth kids, prepare to meet your spiritual home. On Thursday, astronomers announced that, much like your cold, cynical heart, the newly-discovered exoplanet WASP-12b is pitch-black ...

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 ...

Earth goes by many nicknames: Terra, the Blue Marble, Pale Blue Dot, Gaia and simply the “blue planet.” Keeping with the tradition, some may call this planet—what remains of it, anyway—the bling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Anderton, Kansas City-based science reporter and graphic artist. Out of thousands of known exoplanets, it’s not every day ...

A team of astrophysicists led by Princeton University has found an exoplanet that is within three million years of destruction. Situated 14,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Auriga, ...

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 ...

Thegravity of an alien star is causing its planet to unwind, research now reveals. Theworld in question is WASP-12b,the only known planet circling the yellow sun-like star WASP-12 some 867 ...

Astrophysicists have shown that exoplanet WASP-12b, located 600 light-years away, is spiraling in toward certain destruction in about 3 million years. Earth is doomed -- but not for 5 billion years.