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

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

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

The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a ...

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

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

A team of astronomers has uncovered an extraordinary cosmic mystery, a giant planet that seems to be hurtling toward a fiery ...

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

"The planet, as it's falling in, started to sort of smear around the star." The tidal forces began to stretch the planet in a vice-like grip, until finally the planet "splashed down" into the gases of ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

"The planet eventually started to graze the star's atmosphere. Then it was a runaway process of falling in faster from that moment," said Morgan MacLeod of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for ...