Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

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

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

An international team of astronomers has found a new super-Earth exoplanet, TOI-1846 b, using NASA 's Transiting Exoplanet ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

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 ...

The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

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

There could be life out there—way, way out there. Last Wednesday, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had discovered “compelling evidence” of a planet that is potentially habitable. The ...