When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A red giant star will consume planets close to it, but leave others just right for life. . | Credit: Science@NASA Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ...

Six planets will form a cosmic lineup Feb. 28 — here’s why the rare sight may be harder to spot than you think.

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 detectable circumbinary planets.

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 within the system can also be seen. - International ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, could solve a long-standing mystery: why so many exoplanet ...

An international research team announces the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a binary star system. Named HD 143811 b, this giant planet joins the very exclusive club of exoplanets detected

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host ...