Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

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 ...

Relying on information from NASA's TESS telescope, astronomers Edward Bryant from the University of Warwick and Vincent Van ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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 ...

Stars have an alluring pull on planets, especially those in a class called hot Jupiters, which are gas giants that form farther from their stars before migrating inward and heating up. Now, a new ...

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 ...

This article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as ...