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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.
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...
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.
The team found that the planet, dubbed HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent ...
The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation ...
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted TWA 7b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet around a nearby star ...
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 ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.