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.

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

NASA’s James Webb telescope captured its first direct image of a distant gas giant, revealing groundbreaking insights into ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...