Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called "red giant" phase are even more destructive to their orbiting planets than ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...

Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative ways ...

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals an impressive phenomenon concerning ...

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit around both stars — a first in astronomy. The system’s compact, cold nature ...

The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

New planetary formation models from Carnegie’s Alan Boss indicate that there may be an undiscovered population of gas giant planets orbiting around Sun-like stars at distances similar to those of ...

In a surprising twist to our understanding of exoplanetary systems, astronomers have uncovered three Earth-sized planets ...

An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets within the system can also be seen. - International Gemini ...