Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

The show debuts on Monday, June 9, but we got a sneak peek today. Encounters in the Milky Way takes a 20-minute voyage ...

Astronomer breaks down "strongest evidence yet" of life on distant planet 04:06. Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that ...

The planet would have blasted gas away from the outer layers of the star. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph revealed a hot disk of molecular gas surrounding the star, where carbon monoxide was detected.

The astronomers discovered the planet when searching through more than 91,000 low-mass red dwarfs observed by NASA's TESS space telescope.Its existence was then confirmed by ground-based ...