The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

Scientists suggest a star and its planet are orbiting a second star in two opposite directions in an exotic binary star ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

This star was ripped apart by its smaller, denser companion – a dense stellar corpse called a white dwarf – and the planet could have formed from the star’s remains. These planets or their ...

Scientists have discovered certain types of black ... Death Star black holes are damaging stars and their planets, but we are confident they are preventing many stars and planets from forming ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust and gas (aka a nebula) that experience gravitational collapse.

A Death Star is born ... from the Death Star black holes are damaging stars and their planets, but we are confident they are preventing many stars and planets from forming in the first place ...

There used to be a clear demarcation between stars and planets ... a collection of six rogue planets. One of them is believed to be the lightest object to form a protoplanetary disk, raising ...

Transits of exoplanets in front of their white dwarf host stars could reveal the presence of water. Planets could survive ... melting their ice and forming surface oceans and, potentially, life.

We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens ... emitted by explosive events such as supernovae or active black holes. Normally, if a cloud of galactic ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future. By Katrina Miller Stars and planets ... John Black, an astronomer at Chalmers ...

New research is providing insight into how planets form around these small stars, called very low mass stars (VLMS), showing how the chemistry in the planet-forming disks of gas and dust ...