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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Scientists have discovered the first clear case of a planet causing its host star to flare, offering new insights into the ...

Astronomers spotted exoplanet AT2021ueyL b, a gas giant 3,262 light-years away, using microlensing. It orbits in the galactic ...