Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

A team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet with one of the tightest orbit around its star, and it seems to be ...

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

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

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

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

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

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

Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...