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

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

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

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

Astriking discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the bizarre and fascinating nature of the exoplanet ...

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

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

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, a trail of drifting clouds ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Its atmosphere is quickly deteriorating under the star's rapid fire of flares. The team has estimated the planet experiences six times more radiation than it otherwise would.