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

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

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

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

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a historic milestone by capturing the first direct image of an exoplanet.

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Out of this World Exploration of our mysterious universe took a giant leap forward after scientists harnessing NASA's James ...