Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Discover the fascinating journey of a planet that orbits a black hole. This video delves into the dynamics of celestial ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

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, explain our readers ...

A unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b is its ice-cold temperature.

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

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet which is estimated to be 6 percent larger than Earth. Named HD 137010 b, the planet is located about 146 light-away from Earth ...