Hot Jupiters, giant planets that circle their stars in just a few days, have long defied simple explanations of how planetary systems grow and evolve. A new tidal “clock” hidden in their orbits is now ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected three new hot Jupiter exoplanets orbiting three distant K dwarf stars. The finding was ...

Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe’s most dazzling phenomena — the double “hot Jupiter” — as well as a plan to find more of them. Hot Jupiters are large, ...

Research led by an Indiana University astronomer challenges longstanding beliefs about the isolation of "hot Jupiters" and proposes a new mechanism for understanding the exoplanets' evolution. While ...