Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

Astronomers first documented a CME in 1859, in conjunction with the widespread energy grid disruptions that later became ...

In a small blow to the search for extraterrestrial life, a nearby star shot out a strong enough coronal mass ejection to ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

Researchers analyzed nearly half a million nearby star systems to understand how giant planets fare as their stars expand ...

The study suggests that planets closest to their stars, especially those that orbit their stars in just 12 days or less, are at a higher risk of being sent to their doom by their aging suns.

Astronomers have recently discovered compelling evidence suggesting that ageing stars, similar to our Sun, consume nearby ...

Using data from NASA’s TESS mission, scientists can estimate the size (radius) of potential planets orbiting distant stars. However, to verify that these objects are truly planets and not low-mass ...

This extreme expansion poses a serious threat to nearby planets. For example, when the Sun becomes a red giant in about 5 ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...