Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery made by a Nasa rover has offered ...

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

A mysterious cosmic traveler has found its way to the Solar System from the uncharted reaches of interstellar space. The rare ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...