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 found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

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

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

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that ...

While there is a little wiggle room, the planets in our solar system really are orbiting on mostly the same level. Why do ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study ...

Analysis of the wind speed and direction revealed that the cloud is moving at a different speed from its host star, confirming that it is bound to an external secondary object.

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a gallery of detailed snapshots of planetary systems during their "teenage years," an era long shrouded ...

Astronomers are testing a quieter way of searching for moons beyond the solar system, using careful measurements of motion ...