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

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

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

A stronomers are scratching their heads over a recently discovered planet. The planet, dubbed TOI-6894b, orbits a star 238 ...

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

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

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

A recent study has uncovered a dramatic interaction between a planet and its parent star that is reshaping our understanding ...

Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...