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 Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...

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

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

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 ...

The big astronomical event in February is a rare “planetary parade,” according to NASA. You’ll be able to see Mercury, Venus, ...

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

An international team of astronomers led from regional Queensland finds an exoplanet 150 light-years away with a 50 per cent ...