A lava world reaching 3,200°F still holds an atmosphere, challenging what scientists thought extreme planets could survive.

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new world just 35 light-years from Earth – one permanently covered in a vast ocean of ...

Deep in the cold darkness beyond our Solar System, Oxford-led astronomers have discovered a world that defies easy ...

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 ...

It's been a while since the most advanced and most expensive telescope made to date, the James Webb, brought forth another incredible discovery, but the wait seems to have been worth it: we now have ...

For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new kind of planet beyond our solar system—one that may be covered by a vast, long-lasting ocean of molten rock and filled with sulfur deep inside. The planet, ...

Long ago, flowing wind and water shaped Mars's malleable sand and sediment into dunes, ripples and other landscape patterns, called bedforms. Over billions of years, some of these landforms hardened ...