A distant star has just been caught in the act of destroying one of its own worlds, a violent finale astronomers have long ...

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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of the world's most powerful telescopes. Research published in October 2024 ...

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

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

(CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are ...