Scientists have identified a potential new type of planet that has a sulphurous atmosphere and magma oceans evocative of ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

Scientists find entirely new kind of planet - Study suggests that the galaxy’s planets could be far more different than we ...

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

That bright "star" in the west after sunset is Venus, often called the "Evening Star". It will shine brightly for most of the ...

This world is part of a planetary system with four other planets, including a super-Venus and a possibly habitable ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet with a giant underground ocean of magma that traps sulphur and may represent an entirely new class of worlds.

Scientists have identified what is believed to be an entirely new type of planet made completely of molten lava. The planet, designated L98-59d, is found approximately 35 light-years from Earth and ...

We need to change course now.

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy’s most ...