Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through ...