When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

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

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

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

Mercury, Venus, and Mars sit within the same general neighborhood as Earth, yet each has followed a radically different path.

This world is part of a planetary system with four other planets, including a super-Venus and a possibly habitable ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet with a giant underground ocean of magma that traps sulphur and may represent an entirely new class of worlds.

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

That bright "star" in the west after sunset is Venus, often called the "Evening Star". It will shine brightly for most of the rest of 2026, peaking in August.