A new survey of 500,000 stars finds only 0.28% host close-in giants, showing how aging Sun-like stars drag their planets to destruction.

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

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, ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The huge clouds of pebbles rapidly accrete to form the rocky cores of gas giants like Jupiter. A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio ...