When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

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

A molten planet is a planetary object; a surface or deep interior of which is mostly or wholly in a liquid-rock (magma) form ...

Oxford-led team found a sulfur-rich exoplanet with a vast magma ocean, 35 light-years away, challenging current planet ...

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

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...

Our solar system is way more bizarre and dynamic than what our school textbooks taught us. From Venus being super hot to ...

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

The traditional Habitable Zone (sometimes called the Goldilocks zone) is kind of like a campfire. If you sit too close, you ...

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

Scientists have identified a potential new type of planet that has a sulphurous atmosphere and magma oceans evocative of earthly visions of hell. The world known as “ L 98-59 d ” appears to differ ...