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

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

Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...

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

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

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

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

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.

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

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

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...