A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

EXCLUSIVE: Scientists say the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet promises to further understanding of planetary systems.

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

The team found that the planet, dubbed HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent ...

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

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

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

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

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

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

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