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 ...

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 ...

Space has no shortage of weird and curious planets. Astronomers using the 3.5-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory report their discovery of a Jupiter-like world with roughly the same ...

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 ...

Ultra-accurate simulations of the gravity field guide toward a new mathematical foundation of gravity modelling. A layered Earth. (Courtesy: iStock/AlexLMX) The Earth is not a perfect sphere. This ...

Astronomers have discovered a new Jupiter-sized exoplanet that possesses less than one-third of the mass of the solar system's largest planet, giving it a density similar to a marshmallow. The team ...

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 ...

Two tightly packed families of exoplanets are pushing the boundaries of what a planetary system can look like. New studies of the makeup of worlds orbiting two different stars show a wide range of ...

Many of the exoplanets we’ve discovered look at least vaguely like something we’re familiar with. Exoplanets have been described as super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, hot Jupiters, and so on. But not ...