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 University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

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

Unfortunately for planet hunters, Mercury, Venus and Mars are all too close to the sun to observe; they will come out of the ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets ...

Far from our solar system, astronomers have finally watched a star consume one of its own planets, catching in real time a process that will eventually reshape, and likely erase, the world we live on.

Shining in the constellation Gemini near the bright stars Pollux and Castor, Jupiter's opposition is the best time to see the ...