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

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

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

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 ...

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

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one — liquid ...

The team found that the planet, dubbed HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, ...

There could be life out there—way, way out there. Last Wednesday, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had discovered “compelling evidence” of a planet that is potentially habitable. The ...