A Galway-based student has led researchers to the discovery of a new planet after originally thinking she had spotted a large ...

A new planet has been discovered by a Galway-based student. Chloe Lawlor, a PHD student at the Centre for Astronomy at the University of Galway’s Ryan Institute, says she originally thought the planet ...

Since then, astronomers around the world have been studying the planet’s composition through a range of techniques including ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet. It has been named WISPIT 2b and is about 430 light years away.

For centuries, humans have gazed at the stars, trying to understand what lies beyond the familiar planets we know. From Mercury’s blazing orbit near the Sun to Neptune’s icy edge, our Solar System has ...