There are retrogrades that simply slow us down, and then there are retrogrades that ask us to stop, feel, and re-evaluate ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The team found that the planet, dubbed HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

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

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