Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

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

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

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

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

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