Exoplanet L98-59d, located far beyond our solar system, might not sound like someone’s dream destination. It likely has an ...

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees ...

There are worlds like hot Jupiters, gigantic and very hot, as well as ocean worlds and super-Earths with a rocky structure but a much thicker atmosphere than our own planet. Now, a new study suggests ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet slightly larger than Earth, covered by a vast magma ocean and wrapped in a ...

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have identified a newly discovered exoplanet that may orbit within the outer edge of its star's habitable zone, ...

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 ...

A new planet has been discovered by a Galway-based student. Chloe Lawlor, a PHD student at the Centre for Astronomy at the University of Galway’s Ryan Institute, says she originally thought the planet ...