A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Astronomers have discovered a new class of exoplanet that defies traditional categories of planetary classification. In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers led by the ...

A Galway-based student has led researchers to the discovery of a new planet after originally thinking she had spotted a large clump of dust. Chloe Lawlor, a PhD student at the Centre for Astronomy at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers found a nearby super-Earth, GJ 251 c, orbiting in its star’s habitable zone. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In a secluded ...

A team of researchers has uncovered nearly 70 rogue planets in our galaxy, the largest group ever discovered, according to the European Southern Observatory. Rogue planets are described as "elusive ...

The formation of planets is a fascinating process. They usually originate in a disc of dust and gas surrounding stars. When particles come together, they form a clump, and through a process called ...