Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

A star about 1,360 light-years away from Earth, named FU Orionis, is twice as hot as astronomers previously suspected, according to recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, scientists ...

Astronomers are increasingly finding planets that do not simply circle their stars in neat, clockwork ellipses but instead trace out paths that look more like intricate choreography. The latest ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star, tracing the shape of its orbit ...

Using a powerful combination of space-based measurements and Subaru’s advanced imaging, astronomers have discovered two rare companions, one of which enables a key test for NASA’s Roman Space ...

The closest single star to Earth is home to at least one planet, and it’s a rocky little world not so different from ours. Astronomers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known as ...

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

"It will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Is it a bird? Is it a ...

Our Milky Way galaxy's most common type of star is called a red dwarf - much smaller and less luminous than our sun. These stars - or so it was thought - simply are not big enough to host planets much ...

Astronomers have made an unexpected discovery about the planet TOI-3884b, which orbits its star at a crazy angle. The ...