Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

As Santa sits at the North Pole anticipating the discovery of life on some far-flung planet he might be somewhat nervously scanning the latest scientific literature to see which exoplanets are hot top ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to ...

An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away - and found that some areas are as hot as 3,500°C.Dr Jasmina Blecic, from New ...

One of seven Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1d, caught the attention of NASA researchers and is one of the promising planets ...

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

With temperatures reaching almost 2,000 degrees Celsius on its dayside, LTT 9779 is one of the few known planets in the "hot ...

Taejas Venkataraman explores what the discovery of white dwarf pollution can teach us about scientific investigation ...

The universe keeps scientists very occupied and when they think they've figured out the anomalies of the universe, the get ...