Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

According to calculations from IFLScience's resident astronomer, Dr Alfredo Carpineti, using data from NASA's Eyes on the ...

A new survey of 500,000 stars finds only 0.28% host close-in giants, showing how aging Sun-like stars drag their planets to destruction.

Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Frank Reddy Ageing stars look to be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by ...

The study, led by astronomers from University College London (UCL) and the University of Warwick, provides some of the ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Astronomers have been looking for exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest solitary star to Earth at just 5.96 light-years away, since its discovery in 1916. Unconvincing signs of planets in ...

Researchers analyzed nearly half a million nearby star systems to understand how giant planets fare as their stars expand into red giants.

The quiet fear of losing your home is usually a human story, but in the sky, entire worlds may face something similar. As stars age and swell, the space around them shifts in ways that can destroy ...