Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

Debate has raged for two decades over whether Pluto should be considered a planet. Some want President Trump to take action ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet slightly larger than Earth, covered by a vast magma ocean and wrapped in a sulfur‑rich atmosphere. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of planet beyond our solar system – one capable of storing vast quantities of sulphur deep beneath a permanent ocean of molten rock. The study, led ...

NASA chief Jared Issacman appears to be among those who support Pluto being reclassified as a planet. Could President Trump sign an executive order?

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

SCIENTISTS have uncovered an absolute stinker 34 light-years from Earth. A newly discovered planet, called L 98-59 d, is ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique ...

Study suggests that the galaxy’s planets could be far more different than we realised – and some might be able to support life ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new type of planet beyond our solar system, according to new research. The exoplanet, named ...

New observations of L 98-59d, a member of the five-planet system L 98-59, suggest it harbors a vast global magma ocean that traps sulfur deep inside, forming a previously unrecognized class of ...