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Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...
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 ...
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 ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.
Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...
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 ...
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.
A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.