The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

We currently know of more than 5,800 planets beyond the solar system, but we've only found the tiniest fraction of the exoplanets that astronomers think lie elsewhere in the universe.

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Recently, there has been exciting news in the field of astronomy! Chinese scientists have discovered oxygen on exoplanets, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation.

One of the most extreme planets in the universe WASP-189b, the target of the CHEOPS observations, is an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 133112, one of the hottest stars known to have a planetary ...

Scientists theorised about the possibility of Planet Y after spotting a strange ‘warp’ in the Kuiper belt, which is a ring of ...

This planet only exists in a parallel universe that appeared for an episode on an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series and it's one of the strangest along with being the most dangerous.