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 ...

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

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

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

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

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting ...

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

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

NASA is getting closer to building the powerful telescopes needed to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system, thanks ...