The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter," a planet as massive as Jupiter with an orbital period of just a few days. Today, hot Jupiters are thought to have ...

The first planet ever found orbiting another star was detected in 1995, and it belonged to a class now known as a “hot Jupiter.” These exoplanets are comparable in mass to Jupiter but circle their ...

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery ...

Astronomers have confirmed that 3I/Atlas, the interstellar object now passing through our solar system, has made history: it has the highest orbital eccentricity ever recorded-meaning, its path ...

“Runway shows are a festival of eccentricity—the audience and the show itself. But there is a safety to them as well. It’s a similar design process, and you know what’s going to happen. Sometimes I ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Are chief executives getting more eccentric? It might seem so. From xenophobic rants on earnings calls to ...