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

Rogue planets are mysterious worlds that drift through space without orbiting any star, wandering the galaxy in complete ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees ...

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 ...

These three exoplanets are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

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

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a new ...

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.

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...