What can small exoplanets blasted by solar radiation teach scientists about planetary evolution? This is what a recent study ...

STEM-ology, a monthly series of themed science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) events for all ages, continues this month at the University of Wyoming, with events including Toddler ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large ...

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

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun.

Scientists have identified a potential new type of planet that has a sulphurous atmosphere and magma oceans evocative of ...

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