Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

Our Solar System is home to eight extraordinary planets, each with its own unique features, mysteries, and beauty. This cosmic journey takes you from the Sun-scorched surface of Mercury to the icy ...

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, but does that mean they could host ...

Upgraded ALMA images expose hidden rings and spirals around baby stars, indicating planets begin taking shape mere cosmic ...

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

The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...

But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest ...