Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to ...

Wasp-12b has to be one of the most fascinatingly alien planets out there (even for an alien world, it’s bizarre); imagine Earth and then picture the polar opposite. Only then can you begin to ...

Around a star in our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered an extremely low-density planet that is as light as cotton candy. The new planet, named WASP-193b, appears to dwarf Jupiter in size, ...

Seirian Sumner receives funding from NERC. Her book Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps, out on May 26 in the UK and July 12 in the US, looks beyond the gruesome side of wasps and aims to help ...