Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

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An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. Astronomers have revealed new evidence ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Young stars much less massive than the sun can unleash a torrent of X-ray radiation that can significantly shorten the lifetime of planet-forming disks surrounding these stars. This result comes from ...

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 ...