Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

"We expected to see this effect, but we were still surprised by just how efficient these stars seem to be at engulfing their close planets." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Many astronomical objects play by clear rules and fit into neat categories, but brown dwarfs (celestial objects too massive to be mere planets, but too small to be real stars) continue to refuse to ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and they say the fallout could teach us about the formation of our world. The ...

An international team led by Dr. Indrani Das of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has shown, for the first time, how infalling gas from star-forming cores gradually ...

Astronomers now estimate there is at least one planet for every star in our galaxy. These worlds, called exoplanets, are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. But new research from ...

This week, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to look to the western sky on the evening of May 21 and ...

Astronomers have spotted a "rogue" planet gobbling gas and dust at a record rate, and they can't explain its baffling behavior. Although many rogue planets, which float freely through space without ...