A Galway-based student has led researchers to the discovery of a new planet after originally thinking she had spotted a large ...

Discovered in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory, Pluto was demoted as a planet in 2006. Some want President Trump to take action ...

Astronomers have discovered a new class of exoplanet that defies traditional categories of planetary classification. In a ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new type of planet beyond our solar system, according to new research. The exoplanet, named ...

A rocky planet beyond gas dwarfs in LHS 1903 indicates that planetary systems form in unexpected ways.

SCIENTISTS have uncovered an absolute stinker 34 light-years from Earth. A newly discovered planet, called L 98-59 d, is among the stinkiest ever with a strong rank stench worse than rotten egg ...

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

Scientists have discovered a strange “liquid planet” covered in molten magma, challenging known planet types. Could more ...

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

A newly identified world beyond our solar system is giving scientists a fresh look at how strange planets can be, and it may ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. The discoveries are the first results from OASIS (Observing Accelerators ...

February 18 marks the discovery of Pluto by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. The discovery reshaped the understanding of the solar system, as Pluto was long considered the ninth planet until the ...