Like a family in which short parents have tall children, a tiny red dwarf star is defying our understanding of how planets form by existing alongside a giant exoplanet. Giant planets are not rare per ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." Our parochial view of planets orbiting a central star — so familiar because it is the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the red dwarf star TOI-6894 (foreground) and its giant planet orbiting ...

NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged a possible planet near Alpha Centauri A, a sun-like star that forms part of the triplet Alpha Centauri star group. The mini-cluster is just four ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a giant protostar blasting jets, seen diagonally here, on the edge of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Yu Cheng / Joseph DePasquale In a ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star. Earlier observations of this star, ...

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency released the latest photos Thursday.