A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own atmosphere.

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

To the right of the star, there is a small red planet touching one of the star's magnetic field lines. The flare is blasting ...

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Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

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

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

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.