A new planet has been discovered by a Johns Hopkins University study, with unique characteristics such as burning temperatures, glass rain, and a rotten egg smell. Researchers were researching planet ...

This is not some harmless hair. It’s volcanic glass and it could turn your life into an itchy, blistering existence. Uh oh.

From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope image. Up close, the exoplanet HD 189733b is a brutal laboratory of alien ...

As if the 2,400-acre lava field from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and reports of a thick blanket of “vog” wasn’t bad enough, the U.S. Geological Survey warned late Wednesday night of volcanic glass—Pele’s ...

55 Cancri e, a super-Earth eight times heavier than Earth, orbits its star in just 17 hours. With temperatures soaring to 2,400°C, its interior may consist largely of diamond, thanks to its ...

The planet HD 189733 b was discovered in 2005, as one of many huge gas worlds snuggled tightly against their suns. It gradually gained popularity for reasons that were not immediately apparent. It ...