Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...

In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing new world exists. This newly discovered exoplanet, identified as L 98-59 d, seems to play host to a rare type of planetary environment.