According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

The seven planets in the system closely orbit their star, so that if TRAPPIST-1 were ... before joining Mashable to cover all things outer space. She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured ... that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to ...

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently ... of exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST.

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Astrophysicist Paul Sutter talks about the science behind "Three Body Problem," "Interstellar," and "Avengers: Infinity War." ...