Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified a super-Jupiter exoplanet with an extensive ring system, ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it ...

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius of approximately 1.8R⊕, placing it within the intriguing radius valley area ...

An ultra-short period planet is spiraling toward destruction within 31 million years. Its extreme heat and dense composition reveal a violent past. Our circumstances here on the wondrous, ...

Hundreds of distant planets may be far larger than scientists once believed. New research reveals that many exoplanets found ...

What does 2000℃ mean? Iron melts at around 1500℃, so the temperatures on this planet can turn iron into molten metal, or even possibly into gas. Thus, the environment here is so extreme that it’s ...

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal ...