Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

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

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an ...

In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Since then, the tally has risen steadily, and last year it crossed a striking milestone: more than 6,000 known ...

Analysis of the wind speed and direction revealed that the cloud is moving at a different speed from its host star, ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

Astronomers detect a massive metal-rich cloud orbiting an unseen companion of star J0705+0612. Observations reveal its size, composition, and possible origin from a planetary collision.

Astronomers have found a colossal cloud of vaporized metals orbiting an unidentified object, possibly a large planet or small star, near a distant Sun-like star.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...