The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but finding them is incredibly difficult. Unlike ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

A hazy, ultra-light “super-puff” planet, Kepler-51d, is hiding its secrets and challenging how scientists understand planet formation.

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...