It would be easy to dismiss Project Hail Mary as an amalgamation of movies set in space that we have seen over the decades.

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

The planet's unique combination of a magma ocean and a sulfur-laden atmosphere puts it in a class by itself. Read more at ...

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The planet, named L 98-59 d, is covered with magma and ​enveloped by a noxious and fiercely hot, sulfur-rich atmosphere.

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet slightly larger than Earth, covered by a vast magma ocean and wrapped in a sulfur‑rich atmosphere. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new world just 35 light-years from Earth – one permanently covered in a vast ocean of ...

Scientists have identified a potential new type of planet that has a sulphurous atmosphere and magma oceans evocative of ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet with a giant underground ocean of magma that traps sulphur and may represent ...