WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close ...

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

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

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, aided by citizen scientists, has discovered a new long-period gas giant exoplanet, ...

“Young planets inside their forming disk help us to understand all the ingredients and how they interact with each other. So far we only have 1 confirmed such planet in its infancy and 2-3 more ...

GJ 504 b is an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ 504. This planet is estimated to be three to six times heavier than Jupiter.

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...