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 ...

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

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet slightly larger than Earth, covered by a vast magma ocean and wrapped in a sulfur‑rich atmosphere. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have produced the first three-dimensional map of Uranus’ ionosphere, ...

Scientists have discovered a strange “liquid planet” covered in molten magma, challenging known planet types. Could more ...

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Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to follow the rules. Around Neptune in particular, a handful of newly charted ...

Astronomers studying the Kuiper Belt have detected a strange distortion that could point to an unknown planet lurking far ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

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