The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

A gas giant planet in distant space has kicked the cosmic hornet's nest: After the world's relentless taunting, its fiery star is after revenge, and the planet will suffer the consequences, ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an extraordinary cosmic mystery, a giant planet that seems to be hurtling toward a fiery ...

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...