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

The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission aims to map auroral electrojets, improving scientific models of space ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Earlier research had found that the rings of Saturn respond to vibrations within the planet. Saturn's interior vibrates at frequencies that cause slight variations in its gravitational field, and the ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

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

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

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