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NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...
A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...
However, they’re not all like that and recently astronomers detected an Earth-sized planet orbiting a star that is only ...
In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much ...
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...
NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.
The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
A team of astronomers has uncovered an extraordinary cosmic mystery, a giant planet that seems to be hurtling toward a fiery ...
Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.