An international team led by researchers from the EXOTIC Laboratory of the University of Liège, in collaboration with MIT and the Astrophysics Institute in Andalusia, has just discovered WASP-193b, an ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

Researchers discovered a huge planet 1,200 light years from Earth with a density comparable to that of cotton candy, scientists said Monday. WASP-193b is an exoplanet, which means it's located outside ...

A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary clash. A Neptune-sized planet ...

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 ...

Fifth-graders making styrofoam solar system models may have the right idea. Researchers at Lehigh University have discovered a new planet orbiting a star 320 light years from Earth that has the ...

Estimates of the timing of the end of Earth’s core formation range from ∼30 to >100 Myr after the start of the Solar System 2 and depend on approximations for the magnitude of metal–silicate chemical ...

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 ...

The National Science Foundation says TOI-3757 b (right) is the fluffiest gas giant exoplanet to orbit a red dwarf. Illustration: NSF NOIRLab Space has no shortage of weird and curious planets.

Giant alien worlds known as hot Jupiters, with searing, close orbits to their host stars, can inflate like balloons. Now, astronomers have discovered a hot Jupiter so puffy that it is one of the least ...

The outer Solar System has been a particularly rich region of discovery over the past two and a half decades. There are now known to be thousands of bodies located at or beyond the orbit of Neptune, ...

Researchers have applied physics theory and calculations to predict the presence of two new phenomena -- interspecies radiative transition (IRT) and the breakdown of the dipole selection rule -- in ...