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

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

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

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

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

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...