Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to ...

Astronomers say this small gas giant fits perfectly in a gap in its star’s disk, confirming how young planets shape their ...

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

The telescope’s MIRI instrument, managed by NASA JPL through launch, detected a compact object in the disk of debris ...

"The planet, as it's falling in, started to sort of smear around the star." The tidal forces began to stretch the planet in a vice-like grip, until finally the planet "splashed down" into the gases of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the planet, it was the planet that crashed into the star.

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Scientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that should be far too small to have formed it.

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away from Earth. But new evidence has emerged in the case that ...

"The planet eventually started to graze the star's atmosphere. Then it was a runaway process of falling in faster from that moment," said Morgan MacLeod of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for ...