Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

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

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

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

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

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

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...