A distant star has just been caught in the act of destroying one of its own worlds, a violent finale astronomers have long ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

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Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

The classical picture of star and planet formation suggests that a star’s rotational axis and the orbital planes of its planets should be aligned. However, exoplanetary systems have considerable ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. Astronomers have revealed new evidence ...

Young stars much less massive than the sun can unleash a torrent of X-ray radiation that can significantly shorten the lifetime of planet-forming disks surrounding these stars. This result comes from ...