An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Galway, has hailed the "remarkable discovery" of a newly detected planet, WISPIT 2b. Estimated to be just five ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously unknown world may be lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. The ...

Since the discovery of exoplanets, a planet that orbits stars outside the solar system, astronomers and scientists have been astounded by the strange characteristics of these extrasolar planets. To ...

It may be made from a former star ...