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

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

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