Scientists' best explanation for how planets form is called the core accretion theory. The birth of a planetary system begins ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...

Scientists have identified a new class of cosmic explosions, dubbed 'extreme nuclear transients' (ENTs), that represent the ...

For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just took a ...

Astronomers are stunned by a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star. This rare discovery defies existing theories and ...

Astronomers have found that planet mass is about 17% of the mass of Jupiter, or about 53 times the mass of the Earth. The ...

A newly discovered giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, TOI-6894, has baffled scientists and may force a rethink of ...