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 — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

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.

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

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

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 ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

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

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