Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

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 ...

In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing new world exists. This newly discovered exoplanet, identified as L 98-59 d, seems to play host to a rare type of planetary environment.

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

Astronomers have discovered a new class of exoplanet that defies traditional categories of planetary classification. In a ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Oxford has identified a new class of liquid planet, a world defined not by oceans of water, but by a global, thousands-of-miles-deep reservoir of molten ...

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

The molten lava world is enveloped in a thick atmosphere rich in hydrogen sulfide, which would produce a powerful smell of ...

Scientists have discovered a strange “liquid planet” covered in molten magma, challenging known planet types. Could more hidden worlds like this exist, reshaping how we search for habitable planets?

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

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