A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing new world exists. This newly discovered exoplanet, identified as L 98-59 d, ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

There are worlds like hot Jupiters, gigantic and very hot, as well as ocean worlds and super-Earths with a rocky structure ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

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 ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large ...

Garlick / markgarlick.com Astronomers have discovered an entirely new kind of planet outside our Solar System, one with a ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that they said could float in a bathtub if you could get one large enough. The planet is about 580 light-years away from us and is orbiting a red dwarf star in the ...

Thomas White is an associate professor in the Department of Physics, and he’s interested in learning about what’s on the inside of planets and the states of matter it exists in. “The easiest question ...

Ultra-accurate simulations of the gravity field guide toward a new mathematical foundation of gravity modelling. A layered Earth. (Courtesy: iStock/AlexLMX) The Earth is not a perfect sphere. This ...