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

Garlick / markgarlick.com Astronomers have discovered an entirely new kind of planet outside our Solar System, one with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In A Nutshell A rocky planet 35 light-years away has a long-lived magma ocean in its interior and a sulfur-rich atmosphere being actively shaped by sunlight, according to new research. L 98-59 d doesn ...

Water worlds could be surprisingly common in our galaxy — but they probably don’t look like you expect. If we find evidence of life on alien worlds, it will probably be on a planet somewhere between ...

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