Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Why don't planets fall into the stars they orbit if they're constantly being pulled by gravity?Lindsey CoughterRocky Mount, ...

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

This image from a simulation of atmospheric flow shows temperature patterns on one of the newly discovered planets (61Virb), which is hot enough that it glows with its own thermal emission. A movie of ...

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously ...