A rocky planet beyond gas dwarfs in LHS 1903 indicates that planetary systems form in unexpected ways.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

There are worlds like hot Jupiters, gigantic and very hot, as well as ocean worlds and super-Earths with a rocky structure ...

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 ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...