1. WASP-76 b: The Planet Where It Rains Molten Iron Imagine a world where the weather forecast includes showers of molten iron. WASP-76 b, located roughly 640 light-years from Earth, is a gas giant ...

"It's a planet that shouldn't exist," said Vivien Parmentier, a researcher at the Observatory of Côte d'Azur. Hot clouds of molten titanium Exoplanet LTT9779 b was first spotted in 2020 ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

Our planet orbits 93 million miles (150,000 km) away from the sun. This puts Earth in a so-called "Goldilocks zone," where the temperature is just right for liquid water to exist on the surface.

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye.      Now, four small planets ...

On the planet’s nightside, vaporized iron and titanium condense and fall as liquid metal droplets, creating an alien storm unlike anything on Earth. Its atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge ...

With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system, and it's the only one known for sure to have liquid water on its surface. Earth is also unique in terms of ...