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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...