Astronomers have discovered a brand-new class of exoplanet unlike anything previously known. This discovery, featured in ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new type of planet beyond our solar system, according to new research. The exoplanet, named "L 98-59 d," was first identified in 2019, but further observations using ...

Exoplanet L 98-59 d is a molten, sulphur-rich world with a vast global magma ocean, that likely reeks of rotten eggs ...

Astronomers have unleashed a powerful new AI tool called RAVEN to comb through data from NASA’s TESS mission—and it’s paying ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Oxford has identified a new class of liquid planet, a world defined not by oceans of water, but by a global reservoir of molten magma thousands of miles ...

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to melt rock into a churning ocean of magma and ...

A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds ...

Rogue planets sound like rare travelers among the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system, left to ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

This is an artist's impression of a unique type of exoplanet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet is so close it to its star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. The planet is ...