Astronomers have long wondered why planets orbiting two stars like the iconic Tatooine in Star Wars are so rare. You would ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...

What can rocky planets orbiting in the outer parts of a solar system teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study | Space ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets ...

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(CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are ...

'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

Planets are born, and they can also "die." So what's the lifespan of a typical planet?

An international research team announces the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a binary star system. Named HD 143811 b, ...

A distant star has just been caught in the act of destroying one of its own worlds, a violent finale astronomers have long ...