However, scientists would have to fly to an exoplanet to produce the so-called "super-diamond". To create BC8, an eight-atom body-centered cubic crystal exhibiting a 30% greater resistance to ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron.

A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) satellite ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of diamond, and another may rain molten iron. However, not all exoplanets ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A Jupiter-like exoplanet, GJ 2126 b, has been detected orbiting an M-dwarf star using the radial velocity method with the HARPS spectrograph. This exoplanet has ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than previously thought. A study using a 3D global climate model found that exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs ...

Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 light-years from Earth, is so reflective it acts almost like a mirror, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a press release. This planet's hot ...

Exoplanets come in extreme forms—lava spheres, diamond cores, and even planets that rain molten iron—but some are eerily Earth-like and sit in their star’s habitable zone. Traditionally ...