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

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

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 ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

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

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

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

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

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

The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation ...