The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

A recent study has uncovered a dramatic interaction between a planet and its parent star that is reshaping our understanding ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how planets form.

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...