A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...
Kepler-56 is a red giant star slightly bigger than our Sun and with two planets around it. But it has a strange spin as its outer layer is moving faster and is also misaligned with its interior. A ...
Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...
Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...
Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering insight into the diversity of planets beyond our solar system.