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 ...

Traveling between planets is far more difficult than most people imagine. Even with modern rockets, journeys across the solar system take months, years, or even decades depending on planetary ...

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

The inner solar system is home to four rocky worlds that formed under the intense heat of the young Sun. This video explores Mercury, the scarred planet that is slowly shrinking; Venus, where a ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

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

Astronomers have spotted something unusual in a comet passing through our Solar System. 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever s.

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

There is a category of planet that belongs to no star. It was thrown clear of its solar system early in the chaos of ...

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.