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 ...

There is a reason the most recognizable planet orbiting two stars is the fictional desert world of Tatooine from Star Wars.

The galaxy’s most common stars rarely host sub-Neptune planets, revealing a new pattern in how close-in worlds form.

One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously ...

The findings could more than double our current database of worlds that loop around binary star systems. But researchers need ...

Binary star systems may help giant planets form more easily by triggering planet formation far from their stars.

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research ...

Many astronomical objects play by clear rules and fit into neat categories, but brown dwarfs (celestial objects too massive to be mere planets, but too small to be real stars) continue to refuse to ...