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.

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

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 radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting ...

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

An international team of astronomers has found a new super-Earth exoplanet, TOI-1846 b, using NASA 's Transiting Exoplanet ...

But a newfound planet exerts an unexpectedly strong—and ultimately self-destructive—influence on its star in return. The star HIP 67522 is slightly larger than our sun and shines roughly 408 ...

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

Learn more about TWA 7 b, an exoplanet with the mass of Saturn that was captured by creating a fake eclipse.

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

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...