Astronomers have discovered a brand-new class of exoplanet unlike anything previously known. This discovery, featured in Nature, uncovers a molten, sulphur-rich world that defies all conventional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We have learned a lot about the planets in our own backyard, and for a long time we assumed the rest of the galaxy looked roughly ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have studied 72 young sun-like stars to discover that forming planets is a ...

Sub-Neptunes are the most common type of planet in our galaxy. Bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, these worlds remain deeply mysterious because scientists still do not know what they are made ...

It wasn’t immediately obvious that L 98-59 d is an entirely new type of planet. Orbiting a small red star around 35 light-years away, the planet would have once been categorized as a ‘gas-dwarf’ — ...

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 reservoir of molten magma thousands of miles ...

Scientists have found an entirely new kind of planets. The worlds have a permanent ocean of magma inside of them, storing large amounts of sulphur. The example found by scientists is known as L 98-59 ...

Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new type of planet beyond our solar system, according to new research. The exoplanet, named "L 98-59 d," was first identified in 2019, but further observations using ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That’s been a source ...