In 2024, researchers reported another far-off world that smells like rotten eggs. HD 189733b, some 64 light-years from Earth, ...

The WISPIT 2 system is the second known planetary system, following PDS 70, where exoplanets have been observed forming ...

The scene around WISPIT 2 is messy in a way that matters. Rings of dust circle the young star, gaps cut through the disc, and ...

Surprise, it's twins.

Astronomers have identified two giant planets forming within the disc of a young star. The observation offers a rare glimpse ...

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

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

Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disk around a young star named WISPIT 2. Having previously detected one ...

As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of ...

Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

Scientists find entirely new kind of planet - Study suggests that the galaxy’s planets could be far more different than we ...

LONDON — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper's authors have ...