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

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

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

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

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