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 have witnessed a planet causing eruptions on its parent star. The discovery, published in Nature, could reshape ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers claim in a new study.

The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the ...