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

Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

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 discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

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.

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...