After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

Astronomers have discovered over 5,800 exoplanets, unveiling strange new worlds and the possibility of life beyond Earth. Explore the latest breakthroughs in our cosmic quest to understand the ...

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 ...

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: ...

A familiar old tale of the mysterious "mountain beast" known as the Yeti is gaining traction once again, although this time ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, barely perceptible collection of molecules, but a thick, robust, ...

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...