Dying stars may be wiping out nearby giant planets as they expand into red giants. Astronomers found that these close-in planets become increasingly rare around more evolved stars, suggesting many ...

As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of ...

Exoplanet WASP-189b has revealed a direct chemical link between stars and planets, giving scientists new insight into how ...

The JWST discovers an impossible anomaly on TOI-5205 b and challenges everything we thought we knew about giant planets.

What: A newly identified star system, Gaia GIC1, exhibits unusual brightness variations consistent with a large planetary ...

Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science A strange giant ...

Scientists have discovered that a highly unusual giant planet—sometimes called "forbidden"—could have an atmosphere with ...

Exoplanet TOI-5205 b is weird for a bunch of different reasons, and now we can add its low metallicity to that list.

On the eve of Cosmonautics Day, a participant in the competition program of the 47th MIFF "Planet" with Sergey Gilev and the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

'Shadow Lord' is set on a planet called Janix, a world unfamiliar to the 'Star Wars' fandom. Read on for more.

Star Wars used to be the end-all, be-all in space sci-fi, but in the years since the original trilogy, others have rushed in ...