A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

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

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

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered the first clear case of a planet causing its host star to flare, offering new insights into the ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted TWA 7b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet around a nearby star ...

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

Artist's concept of the star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b. A second planet, HIP ...

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