Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

His adventures searching for the mysterious dwarf planets continue ... a year 9 things you owned in the 1970s which are worth a small fortune ...

Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around stars — nurseries that give birth to planets — are ... had theorized, with small red dwarf stars also able to ...