Plenty of threats already loom here on Earth without us having to worry about a star engulfing our planet. Fortunately, us Earthlings have made our home on a planet in a solar system that has ...

A study of 91 pairs of stars finds that about 8%, or one in 12, swallowed up a planet at some point in their lives. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

image: A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as ...

A new study from a survey of 91 pairs of twin stars named C3PO sheds new light on the so-called “three-body problem” that has befuddled scientists for centuries. At least 8%, or 1 in 12, of twin stars ...

Children who participate in high-quality “universal pre-kindergarten” (UPK) programs are better off—both academically and socially—than their peers who attend other top-ranked programs in Cuyahoga ...

A groundbreaking study led by astrophysicists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) discovered that young planets are not the perfect spheres the scientific community previously considered.

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and planetary masses silently orbit their stars — sometimes thousands of astronomical ...