WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like ...

Jupiter is the brilliant evening “star” visible after sunset this winter, peaking in brightness at opposition on Jan. 10, ...

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The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? Current definitions define a star as a body that generates its own energy. While humans have relied on the sun for hundreds of thousands of years, it's only in the last ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a predicament never previously observed. This ...

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no star of its own roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth. Instead of circling ...

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 ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering massive solar flares to erupt. This is the first time a planet has been seen ...