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Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...
Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.
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.
Astronomers have witnessed a planet causing eruptions on its parent star. The discovery, published in Nature, could reshape ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.
Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...
An international team of astronomers has found a new super-Earth exoplanet, TOI-1846 b, using NASA 's Transiting Exoplanet ...
The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation ...
James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...