Astronomers don’t have to work hard to find binary stars in the Milky Way. They’re common, even abundant. For a long time, ...

Astronomers now estimate there is at least one planet for every star in our galaxy. These worlds, called exoplanets, are ...

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression of L 98-59 d. (CREDIT: Mark A. Garlick / markgarlick.com) In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing ...

This is an artist's impression of a unique type of exoplanet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet is so close it to its star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. The planet is ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to investigate a new type of planet. This molten lava world beyond the solar system likely smells like rotten eggs, and suggests that there ...