Our sun is roughly halfway through its life cycle, but what happens when it begins to die? A recent study published in Eos ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

A giant planet the size of Saturn orbiting a sun-like star has potentially been identified in our nearest neighbouring stellar system, Alpha Centauri. At just four light years from Earth, Alpha ...

'Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study. Most of the information we have about ...

"This makes TOI-2267 the first binary system known to host transiting planets around both of its stars." Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), ...

Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL (University College London) and the University of Warwick. Once stars like the ...

Astronomers have found six new worlds that look like planets, but formed like stars. These so-called rogue worlds are between five and 15 times the mass of Jupiter, and one of them may even host the ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

Six rogue planets that have been spotted floating in the abyss of space may help reveal the secrets of how these cosmic phenomena are born. These six rogue planets, which are between five and 10 times ...