At the time, WASP-12b was also the closest planet to its star, though that record is now held by K2-137b, which sits just over half a million miles from its red dwarf star that's located some 322 ...

The crypt-keeper wasp’s manipulation of its host and exit through its head was first described in the literature in 2017. But as scientists have studied it further, things have only gotten weirder.

Wasp-12b has to be one of the most fascinatingly alien planets out there ... Found in 2008 using the transit method, it orbits a magnitude 11 yellow dwarf star, known simply as WASP-12 .

WASP-132 is somewhat cooler and less luminous than the Sun, but the two inner planets would still be ferociously hot. Much further out may lurk another object, which could be a brown dwarf with a ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday.. The parasitic wasp's abdomen boasts a set of ...

Gas giant WASP-193b — with a “puffy” atmosphere — is huddled around a distant Sun-like star and is the second-lightest exoplanet ... named WASP-193b, appears to dwarf Jupiter in size, ...

Due to this relative proximity, distinguishing WASP-80 b from its red dwarf star is no mean feat. In fact, it's even the capabilities of the $10 billion JWST.

Add this to my nightmare list: A creature that turns prey into a zombie, then eats it alive. That's pretty much the M.O. of Ampulex dementor, a wasp named after the mythical "Harry Potter ...

Meet the bone-house wasp. This newly-discovered Chinese wasp species is not afraid of spiders. In fact, it kills spiders with a sting and serves up the arachnids as food for the wasp’s eggs.

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 ...