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

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 ...

Our universe is full of strange and inhospitable worlds, many of which are so terrifying, they would be a nightmare for any ...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb ...

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

I am an astrophysicist and astrobiologist with over 20 years of experience studying extrasolar planets – which are planets beyond our solar system.

Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with sand-like clouds and another surrounded in space by moon-making material.

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was blocked using a coronagraph to reveal a planet to its right. The light at the ...

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

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