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 ...

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.

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explores how binary star systems—two stars born together orbiting each other—can serve as natural laboratories for understanding planet ...

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, ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants. Using NASA’s TESS telescope to study nearly half a million stars, scientists ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A red giant star will consume planets close to it, but leave others just right for life. . | ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets and their parent stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...

Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We expected to see this effect, but we were still surprised by just how efficient these stars seem to be at engulfing their close planets." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...