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

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 massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. Most of the stars across the Milky Way are small red dwarfs ...

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 ...

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Through the looking glass: Astronomers have uncovered a planetary system that challenges long-held beliefs about where planets can exist. This discovery suggests the universe may hold far more ...

Stellar astronomy and planetary systems form a cornerstone of astrophysical research, uniting our understanding of the life cycles of stars with the intricate architecture of the systems that form ...