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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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

The galaxy’s most common stars rarely host sub-Neptune planets, revealing a new pattern in how close-in worlds form.

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

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