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Former (and current) goth kids, prepare to meet your spiritual home. On Thursday, astronomers announced that, much like your cold, cynical heart, the newly-discovered exoplanet WASP-12b is pitch-black ...

Earth is doomed—but not for 5 billion years. Our planet will be roasted as our sun expands and becomes a red giant, but the exoplanet WASP-12b, located 600 light-years away in the constellation Auriga ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The hottest alien planet yet known may create a shock wave-like shield to protect itself against ...

WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is one of the most enigmatic of the 400-plus planets that have been found outside our Solar System over the past 15 years. It orbits a star in the constellation Auriga ...

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WASP-12b is an extreme hot Jupiter in a 1 day orbit, suffering profound irradiation from its F type host star. The planet is surrounded by a translucent exosphere which overfills the Roche lobe and ...

Exoplanets come in pretty much all colors, including pitch black. The huge, blistering-hot alien world WASP-12b has a reflectance, or albedo, of just 0.064 at most, a new study reports. If you're ...

Thegravity of an alien star is causing its planet to unwind, research now reveals. Theworld in question is WASP-12b,the only known planet circling the yellow sun-like star WASP-12 some 867 ...

One of the hottest known planets outside our solar system is slowly being "eaten" by its parent star, astronomers report. First described in 2008, the extrasolar planet—or exoplanet—WASP-12b is a ...

Astrophysicists have shown that exoplanet WASP-12b, located 600 light-years away, is spiraling in toward certain destruction in about 3 million years. Earth is doomed -- but not for 5 billion years.