Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new class of exoplanet unlike anything previously known. This discovery, featured in Nature, uncovers a molten, sulphur-rich world that defies all conventional ...

Scientists have found an entirely new kind of planets. The worlds have a permanent ocean of magma inside of them, storing large amounts of sulphur. The example found by scientists is known as L 98-59 ...

Some planets orbit so close to their stars that a single “year” lasts less than a day on Earth. A few of those worlds just ...

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, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Astronomers have discovered a bizarre new planet covered by molten lava and surrounded by a sulfur‑rich atmosphere that smells like rotten eggs. The newly characterized exoplanet, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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 ...

Erik Gillis, a PhD student in McMaster University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is lead author of a new study revealing that the most common planets in our galaxy don't exist around the most ...