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

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

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

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

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

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the ...

Scientists discover a nearby planet with a molten interior and sulfur-rich atmosphere, L 98-59 d, revealing a possible new ...

Deep in the cold darkness beyond our Solar System, Oxford-led astronomers have discovered a world that defies easy categorisation: a small, rocky worl.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

There are worlds like hot Jupiters, gigantic and very hot, as well as ocean worlds and super-Earths with a rocky structure ...

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