Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star similar in size to Jupiter. The red dwarf, located some 55 light-years away, is 100 times less bright than the ...

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away from Earth.

A new study is challenging the understanding of planetary disk formation around young stars. It reveals that the environment ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

Using the Kepler space telescope, the agency had discovered an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of another star. The planet was the first of a similar size to Earth ...

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red ...

In 2023, scientists discovered a star nearing the end of its life had swelled and absorbed a planet that is likely about the size of Jupiter. Now, with additional observations from the James Webb ...