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

A recent study has uncovered a dramatic interaction between a planet and its parent star that is reshaping our understanding ...

HIP 67522 b, a Jupiter-sized planet, orbits its star in just 7 days. Its closeness disturbs the star’s magnetic field, triggering stellar flares that scorch the planet’s atmosphere ...

Artist's concept of the star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b. A second planet, HIP ...

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

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

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An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated rapid spatiotemporal vertical electric currents (VECs) ...