A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

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

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

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

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

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

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations ...