From the vanishing Aral Sea to China's rapidly expanding coastal megacity, satellite imagery reveals just how dramatically Earth's landscapes have changed in just decades. These before-and-after ...

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 ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from seeing what it’s made of. Observations from JWST revealed that this haze may ...

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 sulphur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...

Sixty-six light-years away, an Earth-sized exoplanet completes an orbit in under six hours, skimming around its star at nearly one-hundredth the distance that Mercury orbits the Sun. This planet is on ...

The search for exoplanets—or worlds orbiting other stars—is astronomy’s great Easter egg hunt. It was in 1992 that professional stargazers discovered the first known exoplanet, a distant body orbiting ...

WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case of a planet that survived the death of a Sun-like star. It’s a Jupiter-size world orbiting a white dwarf—the burned-out remnant of a Sun-like star. Now, a team of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the first atmosphere around a surviving planet around a white dwarf. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration A giant planet somehow heated ...

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