Three planets, two stars and one moon create a spectacular June sky show.

Astronomers have investigated a puzzling binary star system in which two stars that may have formed together now show ...

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline a spectacular month of planetary viewing.

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

A young red dwarf can look calm from a distance. But buried in its light may be the chemical remains of a wrecked world.

Instead they circled a pulsar, the dead remains of an exploded star. Clearly nature excels at making planets, even under extremely hostile conditions. Planets like those in our solar system form ...

Astronomers have found some of the strongest evidence yet that stars can swallow their own planets. A new study, published in ...

In their study, the astronomers found that a supermassive black hole’s outer disk and torus could foster this cumulative ...

A mysterious "rogue planet" has been observed gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second — an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...

Space is full of mysteries that can't be easily explained by the layman, and this latest one from a isn't likely to sour anyone on their fascination with space. Scientists from several institutions, ...

Scientists have found planet and star formations somewhere that was the last place they thought it could occur.