It has the most elliptical path ever seen around a cool star, but it gets really hot every few weeks. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water ...

Led by San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane, a team of researchers has spotted an extrasolar planet about 117 light-years from earth that boasts the most eccentric orbit yet seen.

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: giant planets that loop around their stars on orbits so skewed they almost defy ...